<P> California school districts are of several varieties, usually a Unified district, which includes all of the Elementary and High Schools in the same geographic area; Elementary school districts, which includes K--6 or K--8 schools only, which may have several elementary districts within one high school district's geographic area; and High School Districts, which include one or more high schools in the same geographic area . Elementary districts sometimes includes the word Elementary within their names, but often do not . Sometimes the words Joint and / or Union are included in the district's name . A joint school district serves students from more than one county . A union elementary school district was formed as the result of a merger between two previous school districts, while a union high school district serves students from multiple elementary school districts . </P> <P> The typical district grade configurations in California are elementary (K--8), high (9--12), and unified (K--12), but there are some K--6 elementary districts and a handful of 7--12 high school districts . Districts sometimes merge or consolidate; the number of districts can change annually . </P> <P> In California there are 560 Elementary districts, 87 High School districts, 330 Unified districts . There are also 58 County Offices of Education, the California Education Authority School District (under the California Division of Juvenile Justice), 6 State Special Schools, and 8 State Board of Education charter schools, now classified as a "school district" since 2004--05 . </P> <P> Most of these are listed here, by their public name which they call themselves on their District websites . </P>

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