There are eleven types of school district changes accepted through the School District Review Program (SDRP). The terms below list the types of accepted changes for SDRP.

• Boundary Changes occurs when a school district adds or removes area from the same school district level or across school district levels.
  
• Complex Consolidation occurs when two or more school districts merge to create a new school district with a new name and new federal school district local education agency (SDLEA) ID number, along with additional boundary changes.  Note: The Census Bureau expects accompanying boundary changes for the new school district.
• Complex Dissolution occurs when a single school district dissolves its area between two or more existing school districts, with or without additional boundary changes.   Complex dissolutions do not create new school districts, and the names and SDLEA ID number of the receiving school districts remain unchanged.
• Federal SDLEA Number ID Change occurs when correcting a SDLEA.
• Grade Range Change occurs when a school district changes the grades it covers, for example, changing from covering 9-12 to 7-12.
• Level Change occurs when a school district changes classification, for example, changing from elementary to unified.
• Name Change occurs when a school district changes its name; for example, changing from Oak Union Unified School District to Oak Union School District.
• New School Districts occurs when transferring area from one or more existing school districts to form a completely new school district.
• Pseudo School District occurs when one school district pays for the educational services for a set of grades in a different geographic area than its own.
• Simple Consolidation ooccurs where two or more school districts merge to create a new school district with a new name and new SDLEA ID number, with no additional boundary changes.
• Simple Dissolution occurs when one or more existing school districts are entirely absorbed by one other existing school district. Note: Simple dissolutions retain the name and SDLEA ID number of the receiving school district, and do not create a new school district.