If two or more school districts combine to create a new school district and at least one of the districts which combined to create that new school district was eligible for small district assistance for the last school year prior to the combination, the new school district shall receive, for each of the first five school years after the combination, in addition to any other payments by the Commonwealth, an amount equal to either the total of the small district assistance for which all of the districts were eligible for the last school year prior to combining to create that new school district or the small district assistance for which that new school district is eligible, whichever is greater.
24 P.S. § 2-233