Article 5. Territory Of School Districts of California Education Code >> Division 3. >> Title 2. >> Part 21. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 5.

The boundaries of each high school district shall be coextensive with the boundaries of the component districts included within it.

When the boundaries of a district which is a component of a high school district are for any cause changed to include territory in, or to exclude from, the district, the territory added to, or removed from, the district shall, at the same time, be included in, or excluded from, the high school district.

(a) Whenever the boundaries of an elementary school district and a high school district become coterminous, the districts are merged into a new unified district.
  (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), an elementary school district that has boundaries that are totally within a high school district may be excluded from an action to unify those districts if the governing board receives approval for an exclusion from the county committee if the conditions of subdivision (b) of Section 35710 are met or from the state board if those conditions are not met. Any elementary school district so authorized to be excluded from an action to unify may continue to feed into the coterminous high school under the same terms that existed before any action to unify pursuant to subdivision (a).

On or after January 1, 1981, a school district shall not be formed or reorganized to include territory which is separated from other portions of the territory of the district by the territory of one or more other school districts.

Whenever territory is transferred or added by means of reorganization to another district in which trustee areas have been established, the territory being transferred shall become a part of the trustee areas to which it is contiguous. In the event that the territory being transferred is contiguous to more than one trustee area, terms of agreement to the transfer may include provisions for the division of the transferred territory among the trustee areas to which it is contiguous.

(a) Prior to the date upon which a newly organized or reorganized district becomes effective for all purposes, the county committee may include all, or part of, the territory in plans and recommendations for further reorganization.
  (b) During the first five years after the effective date for all purposes of the formation of a school district, no territory shall be removed from the district without the consent of the governing board of the district.