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It is hard to find a school or district in this country that doesn't have an English Language Learner population, and in many states, it is hard to find a classroom without any ELLs. English Language Learners represented nearly 10 % of the total K–12 student population with 4.85 million ELL students enrolled in public schools during the 2012–2013 school year.6

California has the highest percentage of ELLs at 24 % of enrollment in public schools, about 1.1 million students, followed by Texas with 832,000 ELLs comprising 17 % of public school students.7 In Nevada and New Mexico, ELLs represent nearly one in five students (18 % and 17 %, respectively). ELL students account for 17 % of the student population in Colorado, 10 % in Florida, and 9 % in both New York and the District of Columbia.8

It is clear that the number of ELL students across the nation continues to steadily grow. However, some states, including South Carolina, Kentucky, Nevada, Delaware, Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Virginia, and North Carolina, have experienced huge increases in their ELL populations. According to the Annenberg Institute, “while the U.S. ELL population has grown 18 % from 2000–2001 to 2011–2012, which is a significant increase, these states have experienced ELL growth ranging from 135 % in North Carolina to an astonishing 610 % in South Carolina.”9