Local Education Agency (LEA)
16,057 active US providers register Local Education Agency (LEA) as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.2% of every provider in the registry, and the 98th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 251300000X
- Grouping
- Agencies
- Classification
- Local Education Agency (LEA)
- Active providers
- 16,057
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
The term local education agency means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State to either provide administrative control or direction of, or perform a service function for public schools serving individuals ages 0 - 21 in a state, city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision including a combination of school districts or counties recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public schools. An LEA may provide, or employ professional who provide, services to children included in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), such services may include, but are not limited to, such medical services as physical, occupational, and speech therapy.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,422 | |
| California | 1,197 | |
| Texas | 1,168 | |
| Ohio | 981 | |
| Illinois | 948 | |
| Pennsylvania | 777 | |
| Minnesota | 605 | |
| Florida | 548 | |
| New Jersey | 509 | |
| Missouri | 503 | |
| Wisconsin | 452 | |
| Iowa | 417 | |
| Massachusetts | 406 | |
| Indiana | 392 | |
| Arizona | 367 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
546 of these are people and 15,511 are organisations, so 97% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 1,526 registered in the last five years, 10% of the current population.
That is a slow-growing code, which usually means an established field replacing retirements rather than expanding.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- NEW ORLEANS, LA101
- PHILADELPHIA, PA99
- WASHINGTON, DC91
- COLUMBUS, OH72
- CLEVELAND, OH68
- INDIANAPOLIS, IN65
- BROOKLYN, NY60
- PHOENIX, AZ54
- OAKLAND, CA50
- MINNEAPOLIS, MN47
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Local Education Agency (LEA) most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Speech-Language Pathologist | 213 | 1.3% |
| Occupational Therapist | 163 | 1.0% |
| Physical Therapist | 162 | 1.0% |
| Early Intervention Provider Agency | 69 | 0.4% |
| Case Management Agency | 48 | 0.3% |
| Community/Behavioral Health Agency | 46 | 0.3% |
| School Registered Nurse | 32 | 0.2% |
| Developmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency | 32 | 0.2% |
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.