School Registered Nurse: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 3,892 of 10,274 active records, or 37.9%, carry that flag, so it answers a narrow question about how many records are marked as sole proprietors. The field is self-reported in NPPES and is an imperfect proxy for private practice: it does not by itself establish employment setting, ownership, independence, or whether a nurse works in a school or another arrangement.

By state

New NPI registrations by year

Counts reflect the year each NPI was first issued, among records still active today. The final year is partial: this data covers through 2026-01-11.

Data notes

• The sole-proprietor field is self-reported by the provider in NPPES and is an imperfect proxy for private practice.
• A sole-proprietor count shown as <11 is suppressed: the true value is below 11, which could include zero.
• An NPI count is a count of active records, not a count of nurses, jobs, school programs, or patient capacity.
• NUCC publishes no official definition for this taxonomy, so the classification may not capture every provider performing school nursing or every related role.
• Enumeration-year totals show when NPIs were first enumerated, not necessarily when providers began practicing or entered a particular employment arrangement.
• Providers are counted once, by their primary taxonomy code only.

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) Data Dissemination file, FOIA-disclosable public data under CMS-6060-N. Aggregated by Hero EMR on 2026-08-03; deactivated NPIs excluded; specialty assigned from the primary taxonomy code (NUCC 25.1). Counts below 11 are suppressed. Individual providers are never published. All provider data pages.

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