Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
SOC Code: 25-2021.00
The DOL disclosure extract lists 8,496 H-1B LCA filings for Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education from 1,182 employer filers, with a 97.5% DOL certification rate and an average listed offered wage of $61,041. The highest-volume worksite state is TX with 1,482 filings. The highest-volume filer is Dallas Independent School District. These filings are not USCIS petition approvals or visa outcomes.
LCA filing profile: Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 25-2021.00, the extract lists 8,496 Labor Condition Application filings from 1,182 distinct employer filers. The DOL certified 97.5% of those filings, a DOL record status for the wage and working-condition attestations. Filing volume does not establish that a role qualifies for H-1B, that a USCIS petition was filed or approved, or that anyone was hired.
Where this occupation sits in the corpus. By disclosed LCA volume, Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education ranks #37 of 1,219 occupational codes in the current PlainVisa dataset, placing it in the top 4% by filings. This is a corpus-relative rank computed from the same FY2023–FY2026 DOL disclosure snapshot as this profile, not a measure of job quality, worker demand, or visa approval odds.
Where LCA filings are recorded for Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education. The highest-volume employer filer is Dallas Independent School District with 809 filings at an average listed offered wage of $70,479, followed by Savannah Chatham County Public School System, Denver Public Schools District 1, Milwaukee Board of School Directors. Geographically, TX leads with 1,482 filings (average listed wage $65,686), followed by NC, CA, GA. These distributions describe DOL filing records only; they do not measure labor-market demand, confirmed sponsorship, hiring, or visa outcomes.
Top Employers for Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
Employer filers with the most listed LCAs for this occupation
| Employer | LCA filings | Avg. Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Dallas Independent School District | 809 | $70,479 |
| Savannah Chatham County Public School System | 354 | $64,012 |
| Denver Public Schools District 1 | 224 | $70,691 |
| Milwaukee Board of School Directors | 184 | $50,642 |
| District of Columbia Public Schools | 175 | $64,949 |
| Houston Independent School District | 79 | $68,826 |
| Bering Strait School District | 77 | $75,387 |
| Richland County School District One | 76 | $55,519 |
| Cleveland Independent School District | 66 | $67,953 |
| Lexington County School District One | 66 | $58,189 |
| Alief Independent School District | 63 | $62,214 |
| Austin Independent School District | 63 | $54,302 |
| Jasper County School District | 62 | $47,176 |
| Portsmouth City Public Schools | 60 | $48,406 |
| Japanese Children's Society, INC. | 59 | $39,589 |
| Washington County School District | 58 | $48,599 |
| Halifax County Schools | 57 | $45,662 |
| Bibb County School District | 53 | $59,565 |
| Portsmouth Public Schools | 53 | $60,989 |
| Davis School District | 52 | $63,613 |
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