Forty percent of students in the Delavan-Darien School District are Hispanic. That’s the second-highest percentage in Wisconsin, behind only a charter school in Milwaukee, according to data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Teaching reading, writing and arithmetic when two out of 10 kids also are learning to speak English presents a list of challenges for the school district. But Ash said small-group interaction with a teacher fluent in Spanish—such as the “whole” and “hole” discussion with Noemy and Claudia—is putting English language learners on pace with their classmates who grew up speaking English.

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