Period Kits for School: What Goes In One, and What a School Has to Stock

By Autumn Lido, Partner and Chief of Operations, Convenience Kits International

A period kit is a small bag holding enough period supplies to get one person through a day away from home. This guide answers the question two very different readers arrive with: a parent or student packing one kit for a backpack, and a school nurse, PTA chair or district buyer stocking a building against a state law that now requires it. The checklist is similar; the math is not.

What Is a Period Kit?

A period kit is a sealed pouch of period products, kept in a backpack, a locker, a desk drawer or a teacher's cabinet so that a period never sends anyone home. In a school it takes two forms: the kit a student carries, and the supply a school stocks where students can reach it.

Connecticut's Department of Public Health lists the product types a school may consider stocking: tampons, pads, reusable cloth pads, menstrual cups, menstrual discs, period underwear, and pads on a roll designed to fit a standard toilet paper dispenser¹.

That list is broader than most people expect, and it is written by a state health department rather than a manufacturer.

Two numbers set the size of any kit. Disposable pads and tampons need changing every 4 to 6 hours, and a period runs an average of 5 days with a range of 2 to 7¹.

A school day covers at least one change, usually two. That is the base a kit has to clear.

What Goes in a Period Kit for School

Start with two changes, not one. At one change every 4 to 6 hours¹, a kit holding a single pad is a kit that fails in fourth period.

Pack more than one size. Absorbency labels on tampons are set by federal rule, so light, regular, super, super plus and ultra mean the same gram ranges on every brand².

That standard does not apply to pads². On a pad, "regular" means whatever the manufacturer decided it means, which is why one absorbency of one pad is the weakest thing a school or a parent can stock.

A practical school-day kit holds:

• Pads in at least two absorbencies, since pad labels are not standardized²
• Tampons, if the student uses them, in more than one absorbency¹
• A sealed bag that closes again after it is opened¹
• Something to wrap and bin a used product, because disposable period products cannot be flushed¹

The bag matters more than it sounds. In our experience it outlives whatever it was bought for; I keep several going at once, one for first aid, one for nail products, one for cosmetics³.

A student handed a resealable pouch has a place to keep supplies next month too.

One thing to leave out: medication. No state guidance in this guide supports a school putting pain relievers in a student kit, so check your own school's medication policy before adding one.

Packing kits for a classroom or a drive? The hygiene kits page lists what we stock by piece count, and bulk ordering covers case pricing.

What Period Poverty Actually Looks Like in a US School

It looks like missed class time, and the students report it themselves. In the 2025 State of the Period study, conducted by The Harris Poll for PERIOD., a third of US teens who menstruate (33%) said they had missed at least 15 minutes of class because they lacked access to period products⁴.

Four in ten (39%) said they had been unable to do their best on schoolwork for the same reason⁴.

The finding that should change a purchase order is this one: 45% of teens said they had worn a period product longer than recommended because they did not have another, rising to 53% among lower-income teens⁴.

The FDA's instruction is never to wear a single tampon longer than 8 hours².

Cost is part of it. Nearly a quarter of teens (24%) said they struggle to afford period products, up from 23% in 2023, and teens report their households spend about $40 a month on them⁴.

The study's own sharpest line: 42% said they have easier weekly access to free WiFi than to free period products⁴.

Those are self-reported figures from 1,014 teens who menstruate, aged 13 to 19, not attendance records⁴. That distinction matters later on this page.

There is a second population inside the same buildings. US public schools identified 1.54 million children and youth experiencing homelessness in the 2023-24 school year, a 28.5% rise from 1.2 million in 2021-22, and chronic absenteeism among them ran 47.7%⁵.

A student who is doubled up with another family has an unreliable supply of everything, not only period products. That is a different buy, and it is covered in the bulk hygiene kits guide.

Which States Require Schools to Provide Free Period Products

Twenty-seven states and Washington, D.C. have passed laws requiring or funding free period products in schools, as of January 2026, according to PERIOD.⁶

Coverage varies a lot. Some laws cover all grades, some only grades 6 through 12, some come with money attached and some do not⁶.

Check your own state before you buy anything. The count moves every legislative session, and a mandate without funding still binds the school.

Pennsylvania is the funded example. Act 55 of 2024 lets the Department of Health award up to $3 million a year in grants for period products that school entities provide to students at no cost, and for 2026-27 that works out to about $1.81 per enrolled student across more than 750 school entities and more than 650,000 students⁷.

Hold on to that $1.81. It is doing a lot of work in the price section below.

What the Law Actually Requires You to Stock, and Where

The detail is where programs fail compliance, and Connecticut's statute is the most specific published example. It is Connecticut law, not federal law, so read your own state's text. Use this as a picture of how specific a mandate gets.

Connecticut requires every local and regional board of education to provide free period products in women's restrooms, all-gender restrooms and at least one men's restroom in each school. The rule covers restrooms accessible to students in grades 3 through 12, and the products must be provided in a manner that does not stigmatize any student¹.

Two parts of that get missed almost everywhere: the men's restroom provision, and the grade 3 floor.

Grade 3 is not an arbitrary number. The average age at first period in the US fell from 12.5 years among people born between 1950 and 1969 to 11.9 years among those born between 2000 and 2005, and very early first periods, what researchers call menarche before age 9, more than doubled from 0.6% to 1.4%⁸.

Elementary schools are in scope because the biology moved, not because a legislature got carried away.

Connecticut's guidance also settles the question of what counts as stocked: schools are required to supply both tampons and menstrual pads wherever products are provided¹.

One product type is not a program. It is half of one.

Where the products have to sit

Not the nurse's office alone. Connecticut states that to comply, products must be available beyond the nurse's office, and students must be able to get them discreetly and independently¹.

Look back at the 33% who lost at least 15 minutes of class⁴. A walk to the nurse's office is exactly how those minutes get spent.

Pennsylvania's Department of Health frames the whole program around four principles: Privacy, Responsiveness, Access and Education⁹.

Its practical rules read like a purchasing specification. A dispenser must not require coins or money, must be clearly marked as free in at least two languages, and must be ADA compliant⁹.

Three more rules from the same guidance change order quantity directly⁹:

• Products should be offered in varied locations
• Students must be allowed to take more than one product at a time

• Products should stay available during bathroom closures and after school hours for students in after-school activities

  A small school reading that list and picturing capital equipment can relax. Pennsylvania defines a dispenser as any container able to hold period products, installed on a wall or placed on a shelf⁹.

  Connecticut agrees, naming countertop boxes or baskets, freestanding drawers or cabinets, and a file or folder affixed to the wall¹.

  Pennsylvania adds envelopes attached to walls⁹. Two state health departments, in print, telling schools they do not need to buy hardware.

Choosing Products: Absorbency, Types and Safety

Tampons are regulated by the FDA as medical devices, which is why their absorbency labels mean something specific. Under 21 CFR 801.430, packages must also carry a toxic shock syndrome alert, the warning signs, and the instruction to use the minimum absorbency needed².

Connecticut's guidance describes each product type plainly. Menstrual cups are silicone cups that can be safely worn up to 12 hours and are boiled monthly, and may not be compatible with an IUD¹.

Period underwear is washable, lasts about two years, and is often the easiest option for students with sensory concerns¹.

If you stock reusable products, stock the conditions for using them. The same guidance tells schools to make sure students can reach bathrooms and supplies including soap and hot water¹.

The guidance names brands in each category, including Always, Tampax, Kotex, OB, Stayfree, Cora, Honeypot, Thinx, Knix, GladRags, DivaCup, Saalt, Flex, Nixit, UltuCup and Egal. It also states plainly that the department does not endorse specific brands and that schools may use generics or equivalents¹.

That caveat travels with the list. It is a health department's inventory of what exists, not a recommendation, and it is not a CKI recommendation either.

The metals question

A parent or a school nurse may have seen the headlines, so here is the finding and its limit in one place. A 2024 study led by Jenni Shearston, published in Environment International, measured 16 metals in 30 tampons across 14 brands and 18 product lines sold in the US and Europe and detected all 16, including lead, arsenic and cadmium¹⁰.

Lead was higher in non-organic tampons and arsenic higher in organic ones, so the study does not point to one shelf or the other¹⁰.

The researchers stated they had not determined whether the metals leach out or reach the bloodstream¹⁰.

On September 10, 2024 the FDA said it had commissioned an independent literature review and started its own laboratory study of metals in tampons¹⁰.

The Other Half of School Hygiene: Student Hygiene Kits for Schools

Schools do not only buy period supplies, and the pages that rank for school hygiene rarely say so. Public and charter schools in middle and lower income areas order kits from us repeatedly, and teachers hold them and hand them out when a student needs one³.

The reason is adolescence on both sides of the hallway. Students going through puberty need deodorant, toothpaste and body spray as their bodies start changing, and for students who menstruate that typically begins between ages 8 and 12³. Students who are embarrassed or unprepared miss school for the two, three or four days of discomfort each month, and those days compound into falling behind³.

The published pediatric timing lines up with what we see. Nemours KidsHealth puts the onset of body odor and other signs of puberty at ages 8 to 13 in girls and 9 to 14 in boys, notes that deodorants cover the smell of body odor while antiperspirants temporarily block the pores that produce sweat, and says there is no set age at which a child should start using either¹¹.

That source does flag spray products as the one thing to be careful with for younger children, which is worth knowing if a kit contains body spray.

Our school-facing kits sit in that band. The 9 pc Youth Hygiene Kit, item FBCHILD, lists at $8.90 per kit, and the Young Teen and Tween Unisex 10 pc kit, item #139, lists at $8.90 per kit with case pricing available and contains name-brand products including Axe and Dude Products, both as of August 2026¹².

The Feminine 14 PC Hygiene Kit, item #144, lists at $7.20 as of August 2026¹².

Brand choice is not vanity here. Many nonprofit agencies buy from us specifically because we do not use off-brand product, and Ben Lido's reason is that receiving brands they know and trust "gives them greater dignity, that they matter."³

He calls it a hand up rather than a hand out. For a student, a recognizable brand means not being marked out as the kid who needed help. CKI writes about that principle at more length in preserving human dignity with good work and good hygiene.

Who puts the kits together is worth stating plainly. Our kits are assembled either by a private contract packer or by an agency that employs people with mental and physical disabilities, and both work under the same quality control steps³.

Stocking a building or a program? Call 800-255-5436 and ask about bulk pricing on the youth and teen kits, or browse all hygiene kits first.

How Much a School Period Program Costs

Two published per-student numbers exist, and they measure different things. Pennsylvania's grant works out to about $1.81 per enrolled student per year⁷. Aunt Flow, a supplier of free-vend dispensers, tells universities to budget $10 to $15 per female student per year to stock a campus¹³.

Those are not competing estimates. One is spread across every enrolled student in a district; the other counts only the students who will use the product, on a college campus. Read together, they say something a buyer needs to hear: state funding is a contribution toward a program, not a budget for one.

Working out your own quantity

Connecticut's health department publishes the only non-vendor method for sizing an order. It assumes students use an average of 3 provided products per month across a 180-day school year, and that roughly 50% of students in grade 6 and up menstruate¹.

On that basis it puts a 1,000-student school at about 9,000 products a month and a 4,000-student school at about 36,000¹.

Nine products per enrolled student per month sounds high until you see what it covers: students caught unprepared, rather than a full month's supply. Aunt Flow's independent estimate of roughly 15 pieces per menstruating student per school year lands in the same neighborhood¹⁴.

A supplier and a state health department, working separately, arrived at about the same supplemental model. That is the closest thing to a benchmark this category has.

For context on scale, about 49.6 million students were enrolled in US public elementary and secondary schools in fall 2022, including 32.5 million in kindergarten through grade 8 and 15.5 million in grades 9 through 12¹⁵.

Apply the 50% figure to your own grade 6-and-up enrollment rather than to a national number.

The line item nobody models

Eighteen states still charge sales tax on period products, at rates of roughly 4% to 7%, while 32 states have removed it or have no general sales tax⁶.

PERIOD. estimates about $130 million a year is still collected nationally on those sales⁶.

Most school districts and 501(c)(3) organizations are tax-exempt, so for many readers this does not apply at all. For everyone else it is up to 7% on the quote, and the count has moved twice inside 2026, so check current law for your ship-to state.

What kits cost

Our published hygiene-kit list prices as of October 2026¹²:

Dividing published price by published piece count, that is roughly 38 cents a piece at the low end and about 99 cents at the top, with the 14-piece feminine kit at about 51 cents. Those per-piece figures are arithmetic on two published numbers, not list prices.

The arithmetic is also the most common mistake buyers make. Ben's version: buyers "add up the components and they say, oh this isn't so valuable to me. What they fail to see is that what the customer is looking for is convenience. It's an impulse buy and it has everything all in one package. That's the value."³

There is a real tier decision underneath it. A kit built from no-name product runs two to three dollars in this market; a kit built from national brands costs more³. Custom kits cost more again, because a custom kit needs its own production line, while stock kits run in batches of 5,000 to 10,000 and that batch size is what makes them cheaper³.

Pre-Assembled Kits or Bulk Product? Both, For Different Jobs

Honest answer first: for stocking restrooms under a state mandate, bulk product in a simple container is usually the right buy, and a pre-assembled kit is not what that job needs. Connecticut and Pennsylvania both accept a basket, a cabinet, a folder or an envelope as a method of stocking^{1, 9}.

Kits earn their place everywhere the restroom cannot reach. Pennsylvania's guidance tells schools to keep products available after school hours for students in after-school activities and, during summer, spring break and long weekends, to offer them through regular food distribution programs, take-home packs available for pickup, or an online request form⁹.

A dispenser bolted to a restroom wall cannot solve a July problem. A take-home kit can, and it is one of three options the state names rather than the only one.

One buying trap is worth repeating in Connecticut's own words: because some dispensers only work with certain brands of product, schools should choose carefully before committing¹.

That is a multi-year refill contract hiding inside a hardware purchase. We do not sell dispensers, so take that as a warning rather than a pitch.

On the kit side, bulk ordering runs on tiered case pricing. The Unisex 10 PC kit, listed at $6.60 on the catalog page above, runs $6.20 per unit at one case on the bulk page and $5.93 per unit at 50 or more cases, with customization inquiries starting at 100 or more cases for several items, as of August 2026¹⁶.

If your district wants its own logo on the bag, that path is covered in the custom branded kits guide, and you can build a kit from scratch through custom travel kits.

Two operational answers schools ask for and rarely get in writing. Kits already in stock ship within 48 hours and often within 24, and when new kits have to be produced we can build 4,000 to 6,000 in a day, with double shifts doubling that³.

The other question comes almost entirely from organizations with multiple sites, which describes most school districts: can you drop ship to our different locations, so we are not paying freight into one building and then paying again to redistribute it ourselves?³

Quality control happens at three points, not one: incoming components, assembly, and the seal³. Bottles that show any leak are pulled and not used³.

A leaking bottle in a bag handed to a student is the failure mode a school actually encounters.

Six Mistakes Schools and Donors Make

1. Nurse's office only. Connecticut requires products to be available beyond the nurse's office, reachable discreetly and independently¹. A program students have to ask permission for produces the exact missed class time it was funded to prevent.
2. One product, one absorbency. Connecticut requires both tampons and pads wherever products are stocked and recommends multiple absorbencies and sizes; Pennsylvania tells schools to consider pads, tampons and panty liners in varying absorbencies and to use student input and actual product use to decide what to buy^{1, 9}.

3. No bin in the stall. Disposable period products cannot be flushed, and Connecticut recommends lined trash receptacles in each bathroom, secured in each stall in an easily accessible location for privacy¹.

   It is the cheapest fix on this list and it prevents a plumbing bill.

4. Coin-operated or unmarked dispensers. Pennsylvania requires no coins, clear free-of-charge marking in at least two languages, and ADA compliance⁹. A legacy coin unit on the wall dispenses product and still fails the requirement.
5. Forgetting breaks and after-hours. Products have to stay available during bathroom closures and after school hours⁹. Athletics, clubs and summer are where most programs quietly stop.

6. Resting the case on an attendance number. The most repeated claim in this category is that free period products raised attendance 2.4%, a figure published on Aunt Flow's advocacy page and traced by news coverage to a single New York City high school pilot¹⁴.

   Meanwhile the only randomized evaluation on the question comes from Emily Oster and Rebecca Thornton, published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics in 2011. It assigned 198 adolescent girls in Nepal to receive menstrual cups or to a control group, and found no effect on school attendance, which averaged 87%, and none on test scores¹⁷.

   That last one deserves a straight reading. The Nepal study is 2011, a different country and a different product, and it does not show that period products fail to matter in US schools.

   The US evidence is self-reported missed class time⁴, the 2.4% figure comes from one pilot reported secondhand, and none of the three measure the same thing. The case for stocking products does not need an attendance lift. Students who are prepared stay in class, and students who are not wear a product longer than they should⁴.

Frequently Asked Questions

What should be in a period kit for school?

Pads in at least two absorbencies, tampons if the student uses them, a resealable bag, and something to wrap and bin a used product, since disposable period products cannot be flushed¹. Size it for at least two changes, because pads and tampons need changing every 4 to 6 hours¹. Pack more than one pad size, since pad absorbency labels are not standardized².

Do schools have to provide free period products?

It depends on your state. Twenty-seven states and Washington, D.C. have passed laws requiring or funding free period products in schools as of January 2026, with coverage varying by grade and by whether funding is attached⁶. Connecticut, for example, requires products in women's, all-gender and at least one men's restroom, for grades 3 through 12¹.

How many period products does a school need to buy?

Connecticut's health department assumes 3 provided products per student per month across a 180-day school year, with roughly 50% of grade 6 and up students menstruating, which puts a 1,000-student school at about 9,000 products a month and a 4,000-student school at about 36,000¹. Aunt Flow independently estimates about 15 pieces per menstruating student per school year¹⁴. Both are sized for students caught unprepared, not for a full month's supply.

What does a school period program cost?

Pennsylvania's state grant works out to about $1.81 per enrolled student per year for 2026-27⁷. Aunt Flow tells universities to budget $10 to $15 per female student per year for a campus¹³. The two measure different populations, so do not average them, and add sales tax if you are in one of the 18 states that still charges it and your organization is not tax-exempt⁶.

Are tampons safe for middle school students?

Connecticut's Department of Public Health states that tampons are safe to use at any age¹. FDA labeling rules require a toxic shock syndrome alert, the warning signs and the instruction to use the minimum absorbency needed, and FDA advises never wearing a single tampon longer than 8 hours². The access problem is the one worth solving: 45% of teens report having worn a product longer than recommended because they had no other⁴.

What goes in a school hygiene kit for students who are not menstruating?

Deodorant, toothpaste and body spray, mainly. Body odor and other signs of puberty typically begin at ages 8 to 13 in girls and 9 to 14 in boys¹¹. Schools that order from us tell us teachers keep the kits and hand them out as students need them³, which is also the practical answer for the 1.54 million students identified as experiencing homelessness in 2023-24⁵.

Can we collect donated period products for our school?

In Connecticut, boards of education may accept donated products and grants and partner with a nonprofit or community organization, and donated products must be unopened¹. Five states (Illinois, Maine, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Texas) have passed Good Samaritan laws giving liability protection for donated period supplies, and a federal bill has been introduced⁶. Check your own state, and make sure a drive produces both product types in multiple sizes¹.

Buying for a School or Running a Drive

Convenience Kits International has been packing hygiene and travel kits for 35+ years and has sold more than 50 million of them. Kits are pre-assembled and quality-checked, double-sealed and leak-resistant, with honest item counts, meaning the piece count on the label matches what is in the bag³.

Buying a handful for a classroom cabinet? Start with the hygiene kits page and call 800-859-KITS to ask what is in a specific kit before you order.

Stocking a building or a district? Order in bulk or build your own kit, and call 800-255-5436 to talk through quantities, drop shipping to multiple buildings, customization and lead times. Nonprofit and outreach organizations can also ask about our Good Work program on the same call.

More on the school side of this: school with confidence and good hygiene, keeping kids fresh and clean heading back to school, and hygiene on hand for disadvantaged youth.

Sources

1. Connecticut Department of Public Health, 2024. Guidance and FAQ: Menstrual Equity in Connecticut Public Schools (Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 10-212k as amended 2023; product definition at Conn. Gen. Stat. Sec. 18-69e). Restroom and grade requirements, the both-products rule, product type list and brand examples with non-endorsement statement, quantity assumptions, change frequency and cycle ranges, storage and dispensing alternatives, disposal and no-flushing rule, nurse's-office rule, dispenser brand-lock warning, and the donations and partnership clause. https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/departments-and-agencies/dph/dph/adolescent-and-school/menstrual-equity-law/menstrual-equity-guidance-full-materials.pdf
2. 21 CFR 801.430, User labeling for menstrual tampons, via Cornell Legal Information Institute, and FDA, Menstrual Product Options, Facts, and Safe Use, 2026. Standardized tampon absorbency ranges measured by the Syngyna test, required toxic shock syndrome labeling, the minimum-absorbency instruction, FDA's 8-hour guidance, and the fact that the absorbency-range rule does not apply to pads. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/801.430
3. Convenience Kits International, first-party practitioner interview, August 2026. Schools ordering repeatedly and teachers holding the kits; adolescence as the reason schools buy; the bag outliving its first use; nonprofit agencies choosing name-brand product and Ben Lido on dignity; Ben Lido on component pricing; kit tiers and custom-versus-stock batch economics; three-point quality control and leaking bottles; production and ship times; the drop-ship question; and the five approved claims.
4. State of the Period 2025, commissioned by Thinx, Inc. and PERIOD., conducted by The Harris Poll, 2025. Missed class time, schoolwork impact, affordability, wearing products longer than recommended, household monthly spend, the WiFi comparison, and the survey methodology of 1,014 US teens who menstruate aged 13 to 19. https://period.org/uploads/2025-State-of-the-Period-Study.pdf
5. National Center for Homeless Education, 2026. Education of Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness in the United States: Data Summary for School Years 2021-22 to 2023-24. The 1.54 million identified students in 2023-24, the 28.5% rise from 2021-22, and 47.7% chronic absenteeism. https://nche.ed.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Education-of-CYEH-in-the-United-States-data-summary-for-school-years-2021-22-to-2023-24.pdf
6. PERIOD. (period.org), Advocacy, 2026. Twenty-seven states plus Washington, D.C. with school period product laws as of January 2026; 18 states still taxing period products against 32 that do not, with an estimated $130 million collected annually; and the five states with Good Samaritan laws for donated period supplies plus the introduced federal bill. https://period.org/advocacy
7. Pennsylvania Department of Health, 2026. Shapiro Administration release on the free period products grant program: Act 55 of 2024, up to $3 million a year in grants, about $1.81 per enrolled student for 2026-27, more than 750 school entities and more than 650,000 students. https://www.pa.gov/agencies/health/newsroom/shapiro-administration-delivers-another--3-million-for-free-peri
8. Wang et al., Menarche and Time to Cycle Regularity Among Individuals Born Between 1950 and 2005 in the US, JAMA Network Open, 2024, reported by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Mean age at menarche falling from 12.5 to 11.9 years and very early menarche more than doubling from 0.6% to 1.4%. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1046041
9. Pennsylvania Department of Health, 2024. Menstrual Equity for Pennsylvania Students: Guidance for School Entities. The four principles, dispenser requirements including coin-free, two-language marking and ADA compliance, the broad definition of a dispenser, varied locations and more-than-one-product access, product selection guidance, and the after-hours and school-break distribution methods. https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/health/documents/topics/documents/school-health/Menstrual%20Equity%20Guidance%20for%20Schools.pdf
10. UC Berkeley School of Public Health, 2024, reporting Shearston et al., Environment International. Sixteen metals measured in 30 tampons across 14 brands and 18 product lines, the organic versus non-organic split, the researchers' stated limitation on leaching and bloodstream exposure, and FDA's September 10, 2024 response. https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/articles/spotlight/research/fda-launches-tampon-safety-investigation-after-study-finds-toxic-metals
11. Nemours KidsHealth, 2022, medically reviewed by Melanie L. Pitone, MD. Deodorant Use for Kids and Teens: puberty and body odor onset at ages 8 to 13 in girls and 9 to 14 in boys, the deodorant versus antiperspirant distinction, no set starting age, and caution about spray products for younger children. https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/deodorant.html
12. Convenience Kits International, 2026. Hygiene kits catalog page, prices read August 14, 2026. Feminine 14 PC (item 144) at $7.20, 9 pc Youth Hygiene Kit (item FBCHILD) at $8.90, Young Teen and Tween Unisex 10 pc (item 139) at $8.90 with case pricing and Axe and Dude Products named in the description, and the wider list price ladder from $3.00 to $8.90. https://www.conveniencekits.com/products/hygiene-kits/
13. Aunt Flow, 2026. University guide: budgeting instruction of $10 to $15 per female student per year to stock a campus. https://goauntflow.com/blog/how-to-get-your-university-to-offer-free-menstrual-products-on-campus/
14. Aunt Flow, 2026. School advocacy page: the estimate of roughly 15 pieces per menstruating student per school year for supplemental use, and the 2.4% attendance figure attributed by news coverage to a New York City high school pilot. https://goauntflow.com/advocate-at-your-school/
15. National Center for Education Statistics, 2022. Fast Facts: Back-to-school statistics. About 49.6 million students enrolled in US public elementary and secondary schools in fall 2022, including 32.5 million in kindergarten through grade 8 and 15.5 million in grades 9 through 12. https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372
16. Convenience Kits International, 2026. Bulk ordering page, read August 14, 2026. Tiered case pricing with the Unisex 10 PC kit at $6.20 per unit at one case and $5.93 per unit at 50 or more cases, and customization inquiries starting at 100 or more cases for several items. https://www.conveniencekits.com/kits_bulk_ordering/
17. Oster and Thornton, Menstruation, Sanitary Products, and School Attendance: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, via Harvard Kennedy School Evidence for Policy Design. The 198-participant randomized evaluation in Nepal, the menstrual cup intervention, 87% average attendance, and the null result on attendance and test scores. https://gap.hks.harvard.edu/menstruation-sanitary-products-and-school-attendance-evidence-randomized-evaluation