You may have noticed Lowe’s communicates with customers in both English and Spanish in its home improvement stores. And Spanish-language billboards, mostly offering money transfers and check-cashing services, are popping up all over. Tiendas, or markets, catering to Hispanic residents and carrying imported spices and dry goods, movies and music, can be spotted on all sides of town.

Schools in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties have adapted to serve English as a second language; though the demand for services in relation to total student population remains relatively low. But Escambia and Santa Rosa schools aren’t the only ones seeing Hispanic students. More than half the students enrolled in Deidre Suwanee Dees’s English for Speakers of Other languages classes at Pensacola Junior College claim Spanish as their mother tongue.

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