Special Education Teachers, Elementary School
SOC Code: 25-2056.00
The DOL disclosure extract lists 1,536 H-1B LCA filings for Special Education Teachers, Elementary School from 347 employer filers, with a 97.5% DOL certification rate and an average listed offered wage of $61,405. The highest-volume worksite state is CA with 276 filings. The highest-volume filer is West Contra Costa Unified School District. These filings are not USCIS petition approvals or visa outcomes.
LCA filing profile: Special Education Teachers, Elementary School. Under U.S. Department of Labor standard occupational classification 25-2056.00, the extract lists 1,536 Labor Condition Application filings from 347 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, Special Education Teachers, Elementary School ranks #116 of 1,219 occupational codes in the current PlainVisa dataset, placing it in the top 10% 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 Special Education Teachers, Elementary School. The highest-volume employer filer is West Contra Costa Unified School District with 57 filings at an average listed offered wage of $84,716, followed by Dallas Independent School District, Milwaukee Board of School Directors, Virginia Beach City Public Schools. Geographically, CA leads with 276 filings (average listed wage $73,732), followed by TX, NM, GA. These distributions describe DOL filing records only; they do not measure labor-market demand, confirmed sponsorship, hiring, or visa outcomes.
Top Employers for Special Education Teachers, Elementary School
Employer filers with the most listed LCAs for this occupation
| Employer | LCA filings | Avg. Salary |
|---|---|---|
| West Contra Costa Unified School District | 57 | $84,716 |
| Dallas Independent School District | 51 | $62,831 |
| Milwaukee Board of School Directors | 41 | $49,882 |
| Virginia Beach City Public Schools | 41 | $54,990 |
| U.S.D. 501, Topeka Public Schools | 38 | $57,547 |
| San Jose Unified School District | 37 | $69,900 |
| Baltimore City Public Schools | 33 | $79,119 |
| Denver Public Schools District 1 | 32 | $62,082 |
| Savannah Chatham County Public School System | 31 | $59,400 |
| Richland County School District One | 24 | $61,517 |
| Alisal Union School District | 22 | $69,218 |
| Houston Independent School District | 21 | $78,976 |
| Lexington County School District One | 20 | $56,516 |
| Hobbs Municipal Schools | 19 | $51,638 |
| Toltec School District Number 22 | 19 | $52,816 |
| Independent School District Number 623 | 17 | $77,427 |
| Austin Independent School District | 16 | $55,298 |
| Grants / Cibola County Schools | 16 | $52,438 |
| Unified School District 457 | 16 | $45,660 |
| Bering Strait School District | 15 | $72,061 |
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