Adds the final-offer cut-off distance to the existing Admissions card, plus a catchment
view on the map. Data covers one to ten years depending on the school and local authority, so every
screen here is built around partial coverage rather than assuming a full run.
Sample school: Fairlawn Primary School, Lewisham — 8 years of distance data out of 10 years of admissions data.
1. A distance tile joins the admissions tiles
SchoolDetailView · #admissions
No new section and no new nav entry — the number a parent actually asks for
("how close do we need to live?") sits with the rest of the intake story. The segmented control gains a
third view, Distance.
Admissions
Reception entry, September 2025.
60
Places offered
142
Wanted it first
54of 142 · 38%
Got their first choice
New
0.31mi≈ 500 m · 6 min walk
Last distance offered
iThe furthest home offered a place once siblings, faith and EHCP priority were applied.
It is not a fixed catchment — it moves every year with the number of applications.
↓
The catchment has halved in nine years
0.62 mi in 2016 → 0.31 mi in 2025. Four of the last five years tightened.
Distance of the last place offeredNo cut-off needed — every applicant offeredNot published by the local authority
Last distance offered by year
Year
Last distance
Places
Status
2025
0.31 mi
60
Oversubscribed
2024
0.35 mi
60
Oversubscribed
2023
0.39 mi
60
Oversubscribed
2022
No cut-off needed
60
All offered
2021
0.44 mi
60
Oversubscribed
2020
0.51 mi
60
Oversubscribed
2019
0.48 mi
60
Oversubscribed
2018
—
60
Not published
2017
0.55 mi
60
Oversubscribed
2016
0.62 mi
60
Oversubscribed
›What this number does and doesn't tell you
It is a result, not a rule. It records how far the last successful applicant lived
in a given year. Move one large sibling cohort and the figure shifts.Distance is the final tiebreak. Children in care, EHCP places, siblings and — at faith
schools — the faith criteria are ranked first. A family inside the distance can still miss out.Lewisham measures straight-line distance from home to the school's main gate. Other
authorities use walking routes, which are always longer for the same home.Gaps are normal. An authority may not publish a figure, or the school may not have
needed a distance cut-off that year. Both are shown here rather than hidden.
2. The cut-off drawn on the map
SchoolHeroMap · catchment layer
"0.31 miles" is abstract until you see it over your own streets. The latest year is a
filled ring; earlier years sit behind it as hairlines, so the tightening reads instantly as a set of
shrinking circles. Straight-line rings only — they're an illustration of the number, not a boundary.
Where the last place went
2025 cut-off — 0.31 miEarlier years, 2016–2024Your home
Would you have got in?
We measure straight-line distance from your postcode, the same way Lewisham does.
0.24 miles away — inside the cut-off in all 8 years on record
That's 0.07 miles of headroom on 2025, the tightest year so far. 2018 has no published
figure, and in 2022 every applicant was offered a place.
!An indication only. Distance is applied after siblings, faith and EHCP priority, and next year's
cut-off depends on next year's applicants. Always check the school's own admissions policy.
3. Coverage states
Partial data is the normal case
Coverage runs from ten years to none. Each state says something true rather than
falling back on a generic "no data" — the reason a figure is absent is itself useful to a parent.
4+ years
Full treatment: verdict banner, chart, table, map rings. The verdict line only
appears with 4+ points — below that a two-year swing isn't a trend.
2–3 years
Tile and table, no verdict banner, single map ring for the latest year.
"Only 3 years available" sits under the table.
1 year
Tile plus one map ring. No Distance tab — the tile and its footnote are
the whole story.
Never oversubscribed
Not missing data — good news, and it should read that way.
Everyone who applied was offered a place
in each of the last 6 years, so no distance cut-off was needed.
No data at all
Replaces the current placeholder text in
SecondarySchoolDetailView.tsx:780.
Grammar and some faith schools rank on test score or faith
practice, so a distance figure would mislead.
Places here are ranked by the entrance test, not by distance.
4. Mobile
≤ 640 px
Tiles fall to two columns and the distance tile takes the full width beneath them, so the
headline number survives the reflow. The chart drops its table on mobile behind a "See all years" disclosure.
Admissions
Reception, Sept 2025
60
Places offered
142
Wanted it first
New
0.31mi≈ 500 m · 6 min walk
Last distance offered, 2025
Distance
↓
Halved in nine years
0.62 mi → 0.31 mi
›See all 10 years
Mobile decisions
Distance tile spans both columns — the number a parent came for shouldn't be a half-width cell.
Chart keeps every year but labels only first, middle and last; the endpoint stays labelled.
Year-by-year table collapses into a disclosure rather than forcing a horizontal scroll.
Map rings reuse the existing full-screen hero map sheet, opened from the tile.