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"""
SchoolCompare.co.uk API
Serves primary and secondary school performance data for comparing schools.
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Uses real data from UK Government Compare School Performance downloads.
"""
import hashlib
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import re
import time
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from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
from datetime import datetime, timezone
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from typing import Optional
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import numpy as np
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import pandas as pd
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from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException, Query, Request, Depends, Header
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from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
from fastapi.middleware.gzip import GZipMiddleware
from fastapi.responses import FileResponse, JSONResponse, Response
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from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles
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from slowapi import Limiter, _rate_limit_exceeded_handler
from slowapi.util import get_remote_address
from slowapi.errors import RateLimitExceeded
from starlette.middleware.base import BaseHTTPMiddleware
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import asyncio
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from .config import settings
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from .data_loader import (
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clear_cache,
compute_benchmarks,
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load_school_data,
load_latest_school_data,
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geocode_single_postcode,
get_supplementary_data,
get_supplementary_data_batch,
search_schools_typesense,
suggest_schools_typesense,
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)
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from .data_loader import get_data_info as get_db_info
from . import flags
from .places import build_place_registry, places_for_urn
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from .schemas import METRIC_DEFINITIONS, RANKING_COLUMNS, SCHOOL_COLUMNS
from .utils import clean_for_json, convert_to_native
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# Values to exclude from filter dropdowns (empty strings, non-applicable labels)
EXCLUDED_FILTER_VALUES = {"", "Not applicable", "Does not apply"}
# Maps user-facing phase filter values to the GIAS PhaseOfEducation values they include.
# All-through schools appear in both primary and secondary results.
PHASE_GROUPS: dict[str, set[str]] = {
"primary": {"primary", "middle deemed primary", "all-through"},
"secondary": {"secondary", "middle deemed secondary", "all-through", "16 plus"},
"all-through": {"all-through"},
}
# Must match SITE_URL in nextjs-app/lib/site.ts. The apex 301s to www, and a
# sitemap <loc> that redirects wastes a crawl on every URL it lists.
BASE_URL = "https://www.schoolcompare.co.uk"
MAX_SLUG_LENGTH = 60
# In-memory sitemap cache: name -> XML. Populated on startup and by the admin
# regenerate endpoint after a pipeline run.
_sitemaps: dict[str, str] | None = None
# Built from the same DataFrame the sitemap uses, so places and sitemap can
# never describe different corpora. Reset by the same admin endpoint.
_place_registry: dict | None = None
VALID_PLACE_KINDS = ("town", "locality", "authority", "outcode")
def _slugify(text: str) -> str:
text = text.lower()
text = re.sub(r"[^\w\s-]", "", text)
text = re.sub(r"\s+", "-", text)
text = re.sub(r"-+", "-", text)
return text.strip("-")
def _school_url(urn: int, school_name: str) -> str:
slug = _slugify(school_name)
if len(slug) > MAX_SLUG_LENGTH:
slug = slug[:MAX_SLUG_LENGTH].rstrip("-")
return f"/school/{urn}-{slug}"
# Routes worth submitting that are not a school page. /admissions was missing
# from the sitemap entirely despite being a static, indexable guide.
STATIC_SITEMAP_PATHS = ("/", "/rankings", "/compare", "/admissions")
# A page has something a search result could state if any of these is present
# in any year. Shared by _has_publishable_data and the per-school check in
# _school_sitemap_rows so the two can never drift.
_PUBLISHABLE_FIELDS = ("rwm_expected_pct", "attainment_8_score", "ofsted_grade")
def _has_publishable_data(row) -> bool:
"""True when a school page has something a search result could state.
A school with no results in any year and no Ofsted grade renders an empty
page. Submitting it spends crawl budget and drags the corpus-wide quality
signal down, so it stays out of the sitemap. The page itself still resolves
for anyone who has the URL.
"""
for field in _PUBLISHABLE_FIELDS:
value = row.get(field)
if value is not None and not pd.isna(value):
return True
return False
def _url_element(loc: str, lastmod: str | None = None) -> str:
"""One <url> entry. No priority or changefreq — Google ignores both."""
body = f"<loc>{loc}</loc>"
if lastmod:
body += f"<lastmod>{lastmod}</lastmod>"
return f" <url>{body}</url>"
def _school_sitemap_rows(df) -> list[str]:
"""A <url> element per school that has something to show.
lastmod comes from the school's Ofsted date where there is one and is
omitted otherwise. An always-now lastmod is a claim Google learns to
distrust; an absent one honestly means "unknown".
"""
if df.empty or "urn" not in df.columns or "school_name" not in df.columns:
return []
rows: list[str] = []
seen: set[int] = set()
# Publishable is a property of the SCHOOL, not of its latest row.
#
# The first cut tested the latest year's row alone, which quietly dropped
# every school that has results in its history but a null row for the most
# recent year — a school that stopped reporting, or whose figures were
# suppressed for small-cohort disclosure. The Mallard Academy (150367) is
# the case that caught it: real KS2 results for 2015-16 through 2018-19,
# then null rows for 2022-23 onward. Its page shows all four years; the
# sitemap omitted it. Roughly 220 schools were affected.
publishable_cols = [c for c in _PUBLISHABLE_FIELDS if c in df.columns]
publishable: set[int] = (
set(df.loc[df[publishable_cols].notna().any(axis=1), "urn"].astype(int))
if publishable_cols else set()
)
# Latest row per URN first, so a school's most recent Ofsted date wins.
ordered = df.sort_values("year", ascending=False) if "year" in df.columns else df
for _, row in ordered.iterrows():
urn = int(row["urn"])
if urn in seen:
continue
seen.add(urn)
if urn not in publishable:
continue
lastmod = None
ofsted_date = row.get("ofsted_date")
if ofsted_date is not None and not pd.isna(ofsted_date):
lastmod = pd.Timestamp(ofsted_date).date().isoformat()
rows.append(_url_element(
BASE_URL + _school_url(urn, str(row["school_name"])), lastmod))
return rows
# Sitemaps cap at 50,000 URLs per file. 10,000 keeps a child small enough to
# scan by eye in Search Console, which is the point of splitting at all:
# coverage is reported per submitted sitemap, so one file per page family is
# what makes an indexation problem attributable to a family.
SITEMAP_CHUNK_SIZE = 10_000
# Children are served under /sitemaps/ because Next.js only treats a whole
# bracketed path segment as dynamic — a route folder named "sitemap-[...parts]"
# is read as a literal static segment and never matches.
SITEMAP_CHILD_PREFIX = "/sitemaps"
def get_place_registry() -> dict:
"""The place registry, built once and cached for the process."""
global _place_registry
if _place_registry is None:
_place_registry = build_place_registry(load_school_data())
return _place_registry
def _urlset(rows: list[str]) -> str:
return "\n".join([
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>',
'<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">',
*rows,
"</urlset>",
])
def _place_url(place) -> str:
"""The canonical path for a place. Two namespaces, per the spec.
Towns and localities share /schools/[place]; authorities take their own
prefix because 67 town names collide with an authority name and neither
set contains the other.
"""
if place.kind == "authority":
return f"/schools/authority/{place.slug}"
if place.kind == "outcode":
return f"/schools/near/{place.slug}"
return f"/schools/{place.slug}"
def _places_payload(urn: int) -> list[dict]:
"""The published places containing this school, as the school page needs
them: a name to write in the link, a count so the anchor can say what it
leads to, and the canonical path.
`phase_url` is present only where the place publishes a page for this
school's phase, which is the registry's decision alone — repeating the
threshold rule here is how the page and the sitemap would come to disagree.
"""
payload = []
for place in places_for_urn(get_place_registry(), int(urn)):
entry = {
"kind": place.kind,
"slug": place.slug,
"name": place.name,
"count": len(place.urns),
"url": _place_url(place),
}
payload.append(entry)
return payload
def _place_sitemap_rows(kinds: tuple[str, ...]) -> list[str]:
"""A <url> per place, plus a phase variant wherever that phase clears the
threshold on its own.
Phase is part of the query — "primary schools in beccles" — so each
variant is its own indexable page. Submitting only the bare place URL left
~950 of them reachable by nothing: absent from every sitemap, and not
linked from the place page either.
"""
rows: list[str] = []
for p in sorted(get_place_registry().values(), key=lambda p: (p.kind, p.slug)):
if p.kind not in kinds:
continue
rows.append(_url_element(BASE_URL + _place_url(p)))
# Which phases a place publishes is the registry's decision alone —
# outcodes report none, because the spec gives them no phase route.
# Repeating that rule here was how the page and the sitemap came to
# disagree about which URLs exist.
for phase in ("primary", "secondary"):
if p.publishes_phase(phase):
rows.append(_url_element(f"{BASE_URL}{_place_url(p)}/{phase}"))
return rows
def build_sitemaps() -> dict[str, str]:
"""Build the sitemap index and every child, keyed by name."""
df = load_school_data()
children: dict[str, str] = {
"static.xml": _urlset(
[_url_element(BASE_URL + path) for path in STATIC_SITEMAP_PATHS]),
}
school_rows = _school_sitemap_rows(df)
# Always emit at least one school child, so the index shape is stable even
# on an empty database.
chunks = [school_rows[i:i + SITEMAP_CHUNK_SIZE]
for i in range(0, len(school_rows), SITEMAP_CHUNK_SIZE)] or [[]]
for n, chunk in enumerate(chunks, start=1):
children[f"schools-{n}.xml"] = _urlset(chunk)
# Separate children per family: Search Console reports coverage per
# submitted sitemap, which is how the location layer's indexation is
# measured apart from the school pages'.
for label, kinds in (("places", ("town", "locality", "authority")),
("outcodes", ("outcode",))):
rows = _place_sitemap_rows(kinds)
chunks = [rows[i:i + SITEMAP_CHUNK_SIZE]
for i in range(0, len(rows), SITEMAP_CHUNK_SIZE)] or [[]]
for n, chunk in enumerate(chunks, start=1):
children[f"{label}-{n}.xml"] = _urlset(chunk)
# On a sitemap index, lastmod means "when this sitemap file last changed",
# so generation time is the correct value here — unlike on a <url>, where
# it would be a claim about content we cannot support.
generated = datetime.now(timezone.utc).date().isoformat()
index_rows = [
f" <sitemap><loc>{BASE_URL}{SITEMAP_CHILD_PREFIX}/{name}</loc>"
f"<lastmod>{generated}</lastmod></sitemap>"
for name in children
]
index = "\n".join([
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>',
'<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">',
*index_rows,
"</sitemapindex>",
])
return {**children, "sitemap.xml": index}
def build_sitemap() -> str:
"""The sitemap index. Kept for `lifespan` and the admin endpoint."""
return build_sitemaps()["sitemap.xml"]
def clean_filter_values(series: pd.Series) -> list[str]:
"""Return sorted unique values from a Series, excluding NaN and junk labels."""
return sorted(
v for v in series.dropna().unique().tolist()
if v not in EXCLUDED_FILTER_VALUES
)
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# =============================================================================
# SECURITY MIDDLEWARE & HELPERS
# =============================================================================
def client_key(request: Request) -> str:
"""The rate-limit bucket: the real caller, not the proxy in front of them.
`get_remote_address` reads request.client.host. In staging and production
the backend has no published ports and sits on the internal network, so its
only caller is the Next proxy — meaning every browser user on the site
shared one bucket. Measured before this fix: 70 concurrent requests to
/api/schools returned 60 OK and 10 refused.
CF-Connecting-IP first, because Cloudflare (in front of both environments)
sets it on every origin request and *overwrites* any client-supplied value,
which a parsed X-Forwarded-For chain does not guarantee. The XFF fallback is
forgeable, but only by a caller already inside the Docker network, which is
the one place nothing untrusted can reach.
"""
cf = request.headers.get("cf-connecting-ip")
if cf:
return cf.strip()
xff = request.headers.get("x-forwarded-for")
if xff:
return xff.split(",")[0].strip()
return get_remote_address(request)
# Per-client limiter. Paired with the global ceiling below — the two do
# different jobs and neither substitutes for the other.
limiter = Limiter(key_func=client_key)
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# --- The ceiling no header can raise ----------------------------------------
#
# client_key trusts CF-Connecting-IP, and nothing in this process can tell an
# edge-set header from an attacker-set one. That distinction can only be made
# at Cloudflare, with Authenticated Origin Pulls or an origin firewall. A
# caller reaching the origin directly could otherwise mint a fresh rate-limit
# bucket per request and evade per-client limits entirely — which would make
# correct keying a net regression against abuse, since the single shared bucket
# it replaced at least capped everyone at 60/minute together.
#
# So per-client limits give fairness, and this gives the origin a hard total.
# It does not make the header trustworthy; it bounds what trusting it can cost.
# The header problem itself is closed at Cloudflare, not here.
#
# [window_start_monotonic, count], or None before the first request. A fixed
# window is crude, which is right for a backstop: it has to be obviously
# correct rather than fair.
_global_window: Optional[list] = None
# The container healthcheck runs `curl http://localhost:80/api/data-info` from
# inside the container. Starving it would fail the check, restart the
# container, and turn a load spike into an outage loop — the ceiling exists to
# protect the origin, not to kill it.
_LOCAL_HOSTS = frozenset({"127.0.0.1", "::1", "localhost"})
def exempt_from_ceiling(request: Request) -> bool:
"""Whether the ceiling should ignore this request.
Its own function so the rule is testable without standing up a server —
and so the healthcheck exemption is somewhere a reader can find it.
"""
if not request.url.path.startswith("/api/"):
return True
# The peer address, never the Host header: Host is set by the caller and
# would hand every attacker an exemption.
return (request.client.host if request.client else "") in _LOCAL_HOSTS
class GlobalRateLimitMiddleware(BaseHTTPMiddleware):
"""A cap on total /api/ traffic, independent of any client identity."""
async def dispatch(self, request: Request, call_next):
global _global_window
if exempt_from_ceiling(request):
return await call_next(request)
now = time.monotonic()
# One event loop, and no await between the read and the write, so this
# sequence is atomic without a lock.
if _global_window is None or now - _global_window[0] >= 60:
_global_window = [now, 0]
_global_window[1] += 1
if _global_window[1] > settings.global_rate_limit_per_minute:
return JSONResponse(
# Distinguishable from slowapi's per-client 429: an operator
# reading logs has to be able to tell "one noisy client" from
# "the origin is saturated".
{"detail": "The service is at capacity. Please retry shortly."},
status_code=429,
headers={"Retry-After":
str(max(1, int(60 - (now - _global_window[0]))))},
)
return await call_next(request)
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class SecurityHeadersMiddleware(BaseHTTPMiddleware):
"""Add security headers to all responses."""
async def dispatch(self, request: Request, call_next):
response = await call_next(request)
# Prevent clickjacking
response.headers["X-Frame-Options"] = "DENY"
# Prevent MIME type sniffing
response.headers["X-Content-Type-Options"] = "nosniff"
# XSS Protection (legacy browsers)
response.headers["X-XSS-Protection"] = "1; mode=block"
# Referrer policy
response.headers["Referrer-Policy"] = "strict-origin-when-cross-origin"
# Permissions policy (restrict browser features)
response.headers["Permissions-Policy"] = (
"geolocation=(), microphone=(), camera=(), payment=()"
)
# Content Security Policy
response.headers["Content-Security-Policy"] = (
"default-src 'self'; "
"script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://cdn.jsdelivr.net https://unpkg.com https://analytics.schoolcompare.co.uk; "
"style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://fonts.googleapis.com https://cdn.jsdelivr.net https://unpkg.com; "
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"font-src 'self' https://fonts.gstatic.com; "
"img-src 'self' data: https://*.tile.openstreetmap.org https://unpkg.com; "
"connect-src 'self' https://cdn.jsdelivr.net https://*.tile.openstreetmap.org https://unpkg.com https://analytics.schoolcompare.co.uk; "
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"frame-ancestors 'none'; "
"base-uri 'self'; "
"form-action 'self' https://formsubmit.co;"
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)
# HSTS (only enable if using HTTPS in production)
response.headers["Strict-Transport-Security"] = (
"max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains"
)
return response
# Per-path Cache-Control rules. Keys are matched as path prefixes (longest wins).
# Values: (max_age, s_maxage, stale_while_revalidate)
CACHE_RULES: list[tuple[str, tuple[int, int, int]]] = [
("/api/filters", (300, 86400, 604800)),
("/api/metrics", (300, 86400, 604800)),
("/api/national-averages", (300, 86400, 604800)),
("/api/la-averages", (300, 86400, 604800)),
("/api/data-info", (300, 86400, 604800)),
("/api/schools/", (300, 3600, 86400)), # /api/schools/{urn}
("/api/rankings", (60, 600, 3600)),
("/api/compare", (60, 600, 3600)),
("/api/suggest", (60, 3600, 86400)), # autosuggest
("/api/schools", (30, 300, 1800)), # search list
]
def _cache_control_for_path(path: str) -> Optional[str]:
# Longest-prefix match
best: Optional[tuple[int, tuple[int, int, int]]] = None
for prefix, vals in CACHE_RULES:
if path.startswith(prefix) and (best is None or len(prefix) > best[0]):
best = (len(prefix), vals)
if best is None:
return None
max_age, s_maxage, swr = best[1]
return f"public, max-age={max_age}, s-maxage={s_maxage}, stale-while-revalidate={swr}"
class CacheAndETagMiddleware(BaseHTTPMiddleware):
"""Set Cache-Control on cacheable API responses and serve 304s via ETag."""
async def dispatch(self, request: Request, call_next):
response = await call_next(request)
# Only cache GETs that succeeded.
if request.method != "GET" or response.status_code != 200:
return response
cache_header = _cache_control_for_path(request.url.path)
if cache_header is None:
return response
# Drain body so we can hash it for ETag.
body_chunks = []
async for chunk in response.body_iterator:
body_chunks.append(chunk)
body = b"".join(body_chunks)
etag = '"' + hashlib.md5(body).hexdigest() + '"'
headers = dict(response.headers)
headers["Cache-Control"] = cache_header
headers["ETag"] = etag
headers["Vary"] = ", ".join(filter(None, [headers.get("Vary"), "Accept-Encoding"]))
inm = request.headers.get("if-none-match")
if inm and inm == etag:
# Strip content headers on 304.
for h in ("Content-Length", "content-length", "Content-Type", "content-type"):
headers.pop(h, None)
return Response(status_code=304, headers=headers)
return Response(content=body, status_code=200, headers=headers, media_type=response.media_type)
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class RequestSizeLimitMiddleware(BaseHTTPMiddleware):
"""Limit request body size to prevent DoS attacks."""
async def dispatch(self, request: Request, call_next):
content_length = request.headers.get("content-length")
if content_length:
if int(content_length) > settings.max_request_size:
return Response(
content="Request too large",
status_code=413,
)
return await call_next(request)
def verify_admin_api_key(x_api_key: str = Header(None)) -> bool:
"""Verify admin API key for protected endpoints."""
if not x_api_key or x_api_key != settings.admin_api_key:
raise HTTPException(
status_code=401,
detail="Invalid or missing API key",
headers={"WWW-Authenticate": "ApiKey"},
)
return True
# Input validation helpers
def sanitize_search_input(value: Optional[str], max_length: int = 100) -> Optional[str]:
"""Sanitize search input to prevent injection attacks."""
if value is None:
return None
# Strip whitespace and limit length
value = value.strip()[:max_length]
# Remove potentially dangerous characters (allow alphanumeric, spaces, common punctuation)
value = re.sub(r"[^\w\s\-\',\.]", "", value)
return value if value else None
def validate_postcode(postcode: Optional[str]) -> Optional[str]:
"""Validate and normalize UK postcode format."""
if not postcode:
return None
postcode = postcode.strip().upper()
# UK postcode pattern
pattern = r"^[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9][A-Z0-9]?\s*[0-9][A-Z]{2}$"
if not re.match(pattern, postcode):
return None
return postcode
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@asynccontextmanager
async def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
"""Application lifespan - startup and shutdown events."""
global _sitemaps
flags.init()
print("Loading school data from marts...")
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df = load_school_data()
if df.empty:
print("Warning: No data in marts. Run the annual EES pipeline to populate KS2 data.")
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else:
print(f"Data loaded successfully: {len(df)} records.")
# Pre-compute the latest-year snapshot so the first search request is fast
await asyncio.to_thread(load_latest_school_data)
try:
_sitemaps = build_sitemaps()
n = sum(x.count("<url>") for x in _sitemaps.values())
print(f"Sitemaps built: {len(_sitemaps)} files, {n} URLs.")
except Exception as e:
print(f"Warning: sitemap build failed on startup: {e}")
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yield
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print("Shutting down...")
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app = FastAPI(
title="SchoolCompare API",
description="API for comparing primary and secondary school performance data - schoolcompare.co.uk",
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version="2.0.0",
lifespan=lifespan,
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# Disable docs in production for security
docs_url="/docs" if settings.debug else None,
redoc_url="/redoc" if settings.debug else None,
openapi_url="/openapi.json" if settings.debug else None,
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)
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# Add rate limiter
app.state.limiter = limiter
app.add_exception_handler(RateLimitExceeded, _rate_limit_exceeded_handler)
# Middleware (Starlette runs the last-added middleware first on the way out,
# so list outermost-last: GZip wraps everything and compresses the final body).
app.add_middleware(CacheAndETagMiddleware)
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app.add_middleware(SecurityHeadersMiddleware)
app.add_middleware(RequestSizeLimitMiddleware)
app.add_middleware(GZipMiddleware, minimum_size=512)
# Added last, so it is outermost and refuses before anything downstream does
# work. A ceiling that only applies after the expensive part has run is not a
# ceiling.
app.add_middleware(GlobalRateLimitMiddleware)
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# CORS middleware - restricted for production
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app.add_middleware(
CORSMiddleware,
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allow_origins=settings.allowed_origins,
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allow_credentials=False, # Don't allow credentials unless needed
allow_methods=["GET", "POST"], # Only allow needed methods
allow_headers=["Content-Type", "X-API-Key"], # Only allow needed headers
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)
@app.get("/")
async def root():
"""Serve the frontend."""
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return FileResponse(settings.frontend_dir / "index.html")
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@app.get("/compare")
async def serve_compare():
"""Serve the frontend for /compare route (SPA routing)."""
return FileResponse(settings.frontend_dir / "index.html")
@app.get("/rankings")
async def serve_rankings():
"""Serve the frontend for /rankings route (SPA routing)."""
return FileResponse(settings.frontend_dir / "index.html")
@app.get("/api/config")
async def get_config():
"""Return public configuration for the frontend."""
return {
"ga_measurement_id": settings.ga_measurement_id
}
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@app.get("/api/schools")
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@limiter.limit(f"{settings.rate_limit_per_minute}/minute")
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async def get_schools(
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request: Request,
search: Optional[str] = Query(None, description="Search by school name", max_length=100),
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local_authority: Optional[str] = Query(
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None, description="Filter by local authority", max_length=100
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),
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school_type: Optional[str] = Query(None, description="Filter by school type", max_length=100),
phase: Optional[str] = Query(None, description="Filter by phase: primary, secondary, all-through", max_length=50),
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postcode: Optional[str] = Query(None, description="Search near postcode", max_length=10),
radius: float = Query(5.0, ge=0.1, le=5, description="Search radius in miles"),
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page: int = Query(1, ge=1, le=1000, description="Page number"),
page_size: int = Query(25, ge=1, le=500, description="Results per page"),
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gender: Optional[str] = Query(None, description="Filter by gender (Mixed/Boys/Girls)", max_length=50),
admissions_policy: Optional[str] = Query(None, description="Filter by admissions policy", max_length=100),
has_sixth_form: Optional[str] = Query(None, description="Filter by sixth form presence: yes/no", max_length=3),
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):
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"""
Get list of schools with pagination.
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Returns paginated results with total count for efficient loading.
Supports location-based search using postcode and phase filtering.
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"""
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# Sanitize inputs
search = sanitize_search_input(search)
local_authority = sanitize_search_input(local_authority)
school_type = sanitize_search_input(school_type)
phase = sanitize_search_input(phase)
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postcode = validate_postcode(postcode)
# Load the pre-computed latest-year snapshot (cached after first request / startup).
# This avoids rebuilding the expensive groupby + prev-year merge on every search.
df_latest = load_latest_school_data()
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if df_latest.empty:
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return {"schools": [], "total": 0, "page": page, "page_size": 0}
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# Use configured default if not specified
if page_size is None:
page_size = settings.default_page_size
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# Phase filter — uses PHASE_GROUPS so all-through/middle schools appear
# in the correct phase(s) rather than being invisible to both filters.
if phase:
phase_lower = phase.lower().replace("_", "-")
allowed = PHASE_GROUPS.get(phase_lower)
if allowed:
df_latest = df_latest[df_latest["phase"].str.lower().isin(allowed)]
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# Secondary-specific filters (after phase filter)
if gender:
df_latest = df_latest[df_latest["gender"].str.lower() == gender.lower()]
if admissions_policy:
df_latest = df_latest[df_latest["admissions_policy"].str.lower() == admissions_policy.lower()]
# GIAS OfficialSixthForm flag (dim_school.has_sixth_form). NULL (flag not
# yet populated by the pipeline) is treated as "no sixth form".
if has_sixth_form in ("yes", "no"):
if "has_sixth_form" in df_latest.columns:
flag = df_latest["has_sixth_form"].eq(True)
else: # Defensive fallback only — data_loader now always synthesizes
# has_sixth_form as NULL when the DB predates the pipeline re-run,
# so this branch shouldn't normally trigger. Falls back to age
# range if the column is somehow absent anyway.
flag = df_latest["age_range"].str.contains("18", na=False)
df_latest = df_latest[flag if has_sixth_form == "yes" else ~flag]
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# Include key result metrics for display on cards
location_cols = ["latitude", "longitude"]
result_cols = [
"phase",
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"year",
"rwm_expected_pct",
"rwm_high_pct",
"prev_rwm_expected_pct",
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"prev_attainment_8_score",
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"reading_expected_pct",
"writing_expected_pct",
"maths_expected_pct",
"total_pupils",
"attainment_8_score",
"english_maths_standard_pass_pct",
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]
available_cols = [
c
for c in SCHOOL_COLUMNS + location_cols + result_cols
if c in df_latest.columns
]
# fact_performance guarantees one row per (urn, year); df_latest has one row per urn.
schools_df = df_latest[available_cols]
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# Location-based search (uses pre-geocoded data from database)
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search_coords = None
if postcode:
# Offload the synchronous HTTP call to a thread so the event loop stays free
coords = await asyncio.to_thread(geocode_single_postcode, postcode)
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if coords:
search_coords = coords
schools_df = schools_df.copy()
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# Filter by distance using pre-geocoded lat/long from database
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# Use vectorized haversine calculation for better performance
lat1, lon1 = search_coords
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# Handle potential duplicate columns by taking first occurrence
lat_col = schools_df.loc[:, "latitude"]
lon_col = schools_df.loc[:, "longitude"]
if isinstance(lat_col, pd.DataFrame):
lat_col = lat_col.iloc[:, 0]
if isinstance(lon_col, pd.DataFrame):
lon_col = lon_col.iloc[:, 0]
lat2 = lat_col.values
lon2 = lon_col.values
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# Vectorized haversine formula
R = 3959 # Earth's radius in miles
lat1_rad = np.radians(lat1)
lat2_rad = np.radians(lat2)
dlat = np.radians(lat2 - lat1)
dlon = np.radians(lon2 - lon1)
a = np.sin(dlat / 2) ** 2 + np.cos(lat1_rad) * np.cos(lat2_rad) * np.sin(dlon / 2) ** 2
c = 2 * np.arctan2(np.sqrt(a), np.sqrt(1 - a))
distances = R * c
# Handle missing coordinates
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has_coords = ~(pd.isna(lat_col) | pd.isna(lon_col))
distances = np.where(has_coords.values, distances, float("inf"))
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schools_df["distance"] = distances
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schools_df = schools_df[schools_df["distance"] <= radius]
schools_df = schools_df.sort_values("distance")
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# Apply filters
if search:
ts_urns = search_schools_typesense(search)
if ts_urns:
urn_order = {urn: i for i, urn in enumerate(ts_urns)}
schools_df = schools_df[schools_df["urn"].isin(set(ts_urns))].copy()
schools_df["_ts_rank"] = schools_df["urn"].map(urn_order)
schools_df = schools_df.sort_values("_ts_rank").drop(columns=["_ts_rank"])
else:
# Fallback: Typesense unavailable, use substring match
search_lower = search.lower()
mask = schools_df["school_name"].str.lower().str.contains(search_lower, na=False)
if "address" in schools_df.columns:
mask = mask | schools_df["address"].str.lower().str.contains(search_lower, na=False)
schools_df = schools_df[mask]
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if local_authority:
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schools_df = schools_df[
schools_df["local_authority"].str.lower() == local_authority.lower()
]
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if school_type:
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schools_df = schools_df[
schools_df["school_type"].str.lower() == school_type.lower()
]
# Compute result-scoped filter values (before pagination).
# Gender and admissions are secondary-only filters — scope them to schools
# with KS4 data so they don't appear for purely primary result sets.
_sec_mask = schools_df["attainment_8_score"].notna() if "attainment_8_score" in schools_df.columns else pd.Series(False, index=schools_df.index)
result_filters = {
"local_authorities": clean_filter_values(schools_df["local_authority"]) if "local_authority" in schools_df.columns else [],
"school_types": clean_filter_values(schools_df["school_type"]) if "school_type" in schools_df.columns else [],
"phases": clean_filter_values(schools_df["phase"]) if "phase" in schools_df.columns else [],
"genders": clean_filter_values(schools_df.loc[_sec_mask, "gender"]) if "gender" in schools_df.columns and _sec_mask.any() else [],
"admissions_policies": clean_filter_values(schools_df.loc[_sec_mask, "admissions_policy"]) if "admissions_policy" in schools_df.columns and _sec_mask.any() else [],
}
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# Pagination
total = len(schools_df)
start_idx = (page - 1) * page_size
end_idx = start_idx + page_size
schools_df = schools_df.iloc[start_idx:end_idx]
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return {
"schools": clean_for_json(schools_df),
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"total": total,
"page": page,
"page_size": page_size,
"total_pages": (total + page_size - 1) // page_size if page_size > 0 else 0,
"result_filters": result_filters,
"location_info": {
"postcode": postcode,
"radius": radius * 1.60934, # Convert miles to km for frontend display
"coordinates": [search_coords[0], search_coords[1]]
}
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if search_coords
else None,
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}
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@app.get("/api/schools/{urn}")
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@limiter.limit(f"{settings.rate_limit_per_minute}/minute")
async def get_school_details(request: Request, urn: int):
"""Get detailed performance data for a specific school across all years."""
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# Validate URN range (UK school URNs are 6 digits)
if not (100000 <= urn <= 999999):
raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="Invalid URN format")
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df = load_school_data()
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if df.empty:
raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="No data available")
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school_data = df[df["urn"] == urn]
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if school_data.empty:
raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="School not found")
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# Sort by year
school_data = school_data.sort_values("year")
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# Get latest info for the school
latest = school_data.iloc[-1]
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# Fetch supplementary data (Ofsted, admissions, etc.)
from .database import SessionLocal
supplementary = {}
try:
db = SessionLocal()
supplementary = get_supplementary_data(db, urn)
db.close()
except Exception:
pass
# Schools with no performance rows (post-16 institutions, PRUs, new
# schools) carry NaN in every LEFT-JOINed numeric column; NaN reaching
# JSONResponse raises ValueError, so school_info needs the same
# conversion yearly_data gets from clean_for_json.
school_info = {
k: convert_to_native(v)
for k, v in {
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"urn": urn,
"school_name": latest.get("school_name", ""),
"local_authority": latest.get("local_authority", ""),
"school_type": latest.get("school_type", ""),
"address": latest.get("address", ""),
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"religious_denomination": latest.get("religious_denomination", ""),
"age_range": latest.get("age_range", ""),
"has_sixth_form": latest.get("has_sixth_form"),
"nursery_provision": latest.get("nursery_provision"),
"status": latest.get("status"),
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"latitude": latest.get("latitude"),
"longitude": latest.get("longitude"),
"phase": latest.get("phase"),
# GIAS fields
"website": latest.get("website"),
"telephone": latest.get("telephone"),
"headteacher_name": latest.get("headteacher_name"),
"capacity": latest.get("capacity"),
"total_pupils": latest.get("gias_total_pupils"),
"trust_name": latest.get("trust_name"),
"gender": latest.get("gender"),
"county": latest.get("county"),
"parliamentary_constituency": latest.get("parliamentary_constituency"),
}.items()
}
return {
"school_info": school_info,
# Where this school sits in the location layer, for the page's link
# module and breadcrumb. Derived from the same registry the place
# pages and the sitemap use, so a link is never offered for a page
# that does not exist. Empty is a valid answer: a school whose town
# and authority both fall below the publish threshold has nowhere to
# point, and the page renders without the module.
"places": _places_payload(urn),
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"yearly_data": clean_for_json(school_data),
# Supplementary data (null if not yet populated by Kestra)
"ofsted": supplementary.get("ofsted"),
"census": supplementary.get("census"),
"admissions": supplementary.get("admissions"),
"admissions_history": supplementary.get("admissions_history") or [],
# Behind a flag, and withheld at the source rather than rendered-but-
# hidden: this endpoint is public and unauthenticated, so a field left
# in the payload is a published field. The key is absent, not null —
# null would state that this school has no cut-off, which is a
# different claim from "we are not publishing cut-offs".
**({"admission_distance": supplementary.get("admission_distance")}
if flags.is_enabled("admission_distance") else {}),
"sen_detail": supplementary.get("sen_detail"),
"phonics": supplementary.get("phonics"),
"deprivation": supplementary.get("deprivation"),
"finance": supplementary.get("finance"),
"destinations": supplementary.get("destinations"),
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}
@app.get("/api/compare")
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@limiter.limit(f"{settings.rate_limit_per_minute}/minute")
async def compare_schools(
request: Request,
urns: str = Query(..., description="Comma-separated URNs", max_length=100)
):
"""Compare multiple schools side by side."""
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df = load_school_data()
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if df.empty:
raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="No data available")
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try:
urn_list = [int(u.strip()) for u in urns.split(",")]
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# Limit number of schools to compare
if len(urn_list) > 10:
raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="Maximum 10 schools can be compared")
# Validate URN format
for urn in urn_list:
if not (100000 <= urn <= 999999):
raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="Invalid URN format")
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except ValueError:
raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="Invalid URN format")
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comparison_data = df[df["urn"].isin(urn_list)]
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if comparison_data.empty:
raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="No schools found")
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# One session for all schools' supplementary blocks; failures degrade
# to empty blocks rather than failing a working comparison (mirrors
# the detail endpoint's defensive pattern).
from . import database
_EMPTY_SUPPLEMENTARY = {
"ofsted": None,
"census": None,
"admissions": None,
"admissions_history": [],
"deprivation": None,
}
supplementary_by_urn: dict = {}
census_benchmarks = None
db = None
try:
db = database.SessionLocal()
# One query per table for all schools, not ~5 queries per school.
batch = get_supplementary_data_batch(db, urn_list)
for urn in urn_list:
supp = batch.get(urn, {})
supplementary_by_urn[urn] = {
key: supp.get(key, default)
for key, default in _EMPTY_SUPPLEMENTARY.items()
}
# Import-time census context benchmarks (fact_census_benchmarks);
# absent mart → None, and compute_benchmarks leaves those fields null.
try:
from .models import CensusBenchmark
rows = db.query(CensusBenchmark).all()
by_phase = {
r.phase: {
"year": r.year,
"fsm_pct": r.fsm_pct,
"eal_pct": r.eal_pct,
"median_pupils": r.median_pupils,
}
for r in rows
if getattr(r, "phase", None) in ("primary", "secondary")
}
if by_phase:
census_benchmarks = by_phase
except Exception:
# Missing mart (or a stubbed session in tests) must never break
# the compare payload — and not every session has rollback().
try:
db.rollback()
except Exception:
pass
except Exception:
supplementary_by_urn = {}
finally:
if db is not None:
db.close()
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result = {}
for urn in urn_list:
school_data = comparison_data[comparison_data["urn"] == urn].sort_values("year")
if not school_data.empty:
latest = school_data.iloc[-1]
result[str(urn)] = {
"school_info": {
"urn": urn,
"school_name": latest.get("school_name", ""),
"local_authority": latest.get("local_authority", ""),
"school_type": latest.get("school_type", ""),
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"address": latest.get("address", ""),
"phase": latest.get("phase", ""),
"attainment_8_score": float(latest["attainment_8_score"]) if pd.notna(latest.get("attainment_8_score")) else None,
"rwm_expected_pct": float(latest["rwm_expected_pct"]) if pd.notna(latest.get("rwm_expected_pct")) else None,
# GIAS facts the compare "Who goes there" section needs
# (same fields the detail endpoint exposes)
"religious_denomination": convert_to_native(latest.get("religious_denomination")),
"age_range": convert_to_native(latest.get("age_range")),
"gender": convert_to_native(latest.get("gender")),
# Needed by the admissions "What this means" copy: selective
# schools get entrance-test framing, never the distance template.
"admissions_policy": convert_to_native(latest.get("admissions_policy")),
"has_sixth_form": convert_to_native(latest.get("has_sixth_form")),
"capacity": convert_to_native(latest.get("capacity")),
"gias_total_pupils": convert_to_native(latest.get("gias_total_pupils")),
"trust_name": convert_to_native(latest.get("trust_name")),
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},
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"yearly_data": clean_for_json(school_data),
**supplementary_by_urn.get(urn, dict(_EMPTY_SUPPLEMENTARY)),
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}
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return {
"comparison": result,
# Official DfE anchors + computed state-school benchmarks so the
# compare UI can label provenance correctly (spec §8.6).
"national_averages": _national_averages_payload(df),
"benchmarks": compute_benchmarks(df, census_benchmarks=census_benchmarks),
}
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@app.get("/api/filters")
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@limiter.limit(f"{settings.rate_limit_per_minute}/minute")
async def get_filter_options(request: Request):
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"""Get available filter options (local authorities, school types, years)."""
df = load_school_data()
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if df.empty:
return {
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"local_authorities": [],
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"school_types": [],
"years": [],
}
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# Phases: return values from data, ordered sensibly
phases = clean_filter_values(df["phase"]) if "phase" in df.columns else []
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secondary_df = df[df["attainment_8_score"].notna()] if "attainment_8_score" in df.columns else df.iloc[0:0]
genders = clean_filter_values(secondary_df["gender"]) if "gender" in secondary_df.columns else []
admissions_policies = clean_filter_values(secondary_df["admissions_policy"]) if "admissions_policy" in secondary_df.columns else []
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return {
"local_authorities": clean_filter_values(df["local_authority"]) if "local_authority" in df.columns else [],
"school_types": clean_filter_values(df["school_type"]) if "school_type" in df.columns else [],
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"years": sorted(df["year"].dropna().unique().tolist()),
"phases": phases,
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"genders": genders,
"admissions_policies": admissions_policies,
}
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@app.get("/api/la-averages")
@limiter.limit(f"{settings.rate_limit_per_minute}/minute")
async def get_la_averages(request: Request):
"""Get per-LA average Attainment 8 score for secondary schools in the latest year."""
df = load_school_data()
if df.empty:
return {"year": 0, "secondary": {"attainment_8_by_la": {}}}
latest_year = int(df["year"].max())
sec_df = df[(df["year"] == latest_year) & df["attainment_8_score"].notna()]
la_avg = sec_df.groupby("local_authority")["attainment_8_score"].mean().round(1).to_dict()
return {"year": latest_year, "secondary": {"attainment_8_by_la": la_avg}}
_KS2_NATIONAL_METRICS = [
"rwm_expected_pct", "rwm_high_pct",
"reading_expected_pct", "writing_expected_pct", "maths_expected_pct",
# Per-subject higher-standard nationals: reading/maths reach the "higher
# standard" in the tests; writing is teacher-assessed at "greater depth"
# (writing_gd_pct). Needed so each SATs bar compares to its own benchmark.
"reading_high_pct", "writing_gd_pct", "maths_high_pct",
"gps_expected_pct", "gps_high_pct", "science_expected_pct",
"reading_avg_score", "maths_avg_score", "gps_avg_score",
"reading_progress", "writing_progress", "maths_progress",
"overall_absence_pct", "persistent_absence_pct",
"disadvantaged_gap", "disadvantaged_pct", "sen_support_pct", "eal_pct",
]
_KS4_NATIONAL_METRICS = [
"attainment_8_score", "progress_8_score",
"english_maths_standard_pass_pct", "english_maths_strong_pass_pct",
"ebacc_entry_pct", "ebacc_standard_pass_pct", "ebacc_strong_pass_pct",
"ebacc_avg_score", "gcse_grade_91_pct",
]
def _national_averages_payload(df: pd.DataFrame) -> dict:
"""National-averages payload shared by /api/national-averages and
/api/compare.
Both series are persisted marts computed at import time: official DfE
KS2 figures (fact_ks2_national_averages) and official DfE KS4 figures
(fact_ks4_national_averages) — the API never aggregates the performance
dataframe per request. If the KS4 mart hasn't been built yet, the
secondary series is empty — never a computed stand-in, because the UI
labels these figures as official DfE data.
"""
if df.empty:
return {"primary": {}, "secondary": {}}
latest_year = int(df["year"].max())
from . import database
from .models import Ks2NationalAverage, Ks4NationalAverage
def _row_metrics(row, metric_list):
out = {}
for col in metric_list:
val = getattr(row, col, None)
if val is not None:
out[col] = val
return out
ks2_rows: list = []
ks4_rows: list = []
db = None
try:
db = database.SessionLocal()
try:
ks2_rows = db.query(Ks2NationalAverage).order_by(Ks2NationalAverage.year).all()
except Exception:
db.rollback()
try:
ks4_rows = db.query(Ks4NationalAverage).order_by(Ks4NationalAverage.year).all()
except Exception:
db.rollback()
except Exception:
pass
finally:
if db is not None:
db.close()
primary_by_year = {r.year: _row_metrics(r, _KS2_NATIONAL_METRICS) for r in ks2_rows}
secondary_by_year = {r.year: _row_metrics(r, _KS4_NATIONAL_METRICS) for r in ks4_rows}
all_years = sorted(set(primary_by_year) | set(secondary_by_year))
by_year = [
{
"year": yr,
"primary": primary_by_year.get(yr, {}),
"secondary": secondary_by_year.get(yr, {}),
}
for yr in all_years
]
latest_primary = next((e["primary"] for e in reversed(by_year) if e["primary"]), {})
latest_secondary = next((e["secondary"] for e in reversed(by_year) if e["secondary"]), {})
return {
"year": latest_year,
"primary": latest_primary,
"secondary": latest_secondary,
"by_year": by_year,
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}
@app.get("/api/national-averages")
@limiter.limit(f"{settings.rate_limit_per_minute}/minute")
async def get_national_averages(request: Request):
"""
National averages: official DfE KS2 figures per year plus computed
KS4 averages, derived from the loaded DataFrame and the
fact_ks2_national_averages mart.
"""
return _national_averages_payload(load_school_data())
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@app.get("/api/metrics")
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@limiter.limit(f"{settings.rate_limit_per_minute}/minute")
async def get_available_metrics(request: Request):
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"""
Get list of available performance metrics for schools.
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This is the single source of truth for metric definitions.
Frontend should consume this to avoid duplication.
"""
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df = load_school_data()
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available = []
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for key, info in METRIC_DEFINITIONS.items():
if df.empty or key in df.columns:
available.append({"key": key, **info})
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return {"metrics": available}
@app.get("/api/rankings")
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@limiter.limit(f"{settings.rate_limit_per_minute}/minute")
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async def get_rankings(
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request: Request,
metric: str = Query("rwm_expected_pct", description="Metric to rank by", max_length=50),
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year: Optional[int] = Query(
None,
description="Academic year code, e.g. 201819 (defaults to most recent)",
ge=2000,
le=210100,
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),
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limit: int = Query(20, ge=1, le=100, description="Number of schools to return"),
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local_authority: Optional[str] = Query(
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None, description="Filter by local authority", max_length=100
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),
phase: Optional[str] = Query(
None, description="Filter by phase: primary or secondary", max_length=20
),
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):
"""Get school rankings by a specific metric."""
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# Sanitize local authority input
local_authority = sanitize_search_input(local_authority)
# Validate metric name (only allow alphanumeric and underscore)
if not re.match(r"^[a-z0-9_]+$", metric):
raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="Invalid metric name")
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df = load_school_data()
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if df.empty:
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return {"metric": metric, "year": None, "rankings": [], "total": 0}
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if metric not in df.columns:
raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail=f"Metric '{metric}' not available")
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# Filter by year
if year:
df = df[df["year"] == year]
else:
# Use most recent year
max_year = df["year"].max()
df = df[df["year"] == max_year]
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# Filter by local authority if specified
if local_authority:
df = df[df["local_authority"].str.lower() == local_authority.lower()]
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# Filter by phase
if phase == "primary" and "rwm_expected_pct" in df.columns:
df = df[df["rwm_expected_pct"].notna()]
elif phase == "secondary" and "attainment_8_score" in df.columns:
df = df[df["attainment_8_score"].notna()]
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# Sort and rank (exclude rows with no data for this metric)
df = df.dropna(subset=[metric])
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total = len(df)
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# For progress scores, higher is better. For percentages, higher is also better.
df = df.sort_values(metric, ascending=False).head(limit)
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# Return only relevant fields for rankings
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available_cols = [c for c in RANKING_COLUMNS if c in df.columns]
df = df[available_cols].copy()
# Surface the requested metric under a stable `value` key so the
# frontend doesn't need to know each metric's column name. The raw
# metric column is also kept in the row for callers that want it.
df["value"] = df[metric]
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return {
"metric": metric,
"year": int(df["year"].iloc[0]) if not df.empty else None,
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"rankings": clean_for_json(df),
"total": total,
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}
@app.get("/api/places")
@limiter.limit(f"{settings.rate_limit_per_minute}/minute")
async def list_places(request: Request):
"""Every published place. The sitemap and the link modules read this."""
registry = get_place_registry()
return {"places": [
{"kind": p.kind, "slug": p.slug, "name": p.name, "count": len(p.urns)}
for p in sorted(registry.values(), key=lambda p: (p.kind, p.slug))
]}
@app.get("/api/places/{kind}/{slug}")
@limiter.limit(f"{settings.rate_limit_per_minute}/minute")
async def get_place(request: Request, kind: str, slug: str,
phase: Optional[str] = None):
"""One place: its schools ranked, and its local averages."""
if kind not in VALID_PLACE_KINDS:
raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="No such place")
registry = get_place_registry()
place = registry.get(f"{kind}:{slug}")
if place is None:
raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="No such place")
df = load_latest_school_data()
rows = df[df["urn"].isin(place.urns)]
if phase:
wanted = PHASE_GROUPS.get(phase.lower())
if wanted and "phase" in rows.columns:
rows = rows[rows["phase"].fillna("").str.lower().isin(wanted)]
# The metric the page shows, and averages.
metric = "attainment_8_score" if phase == "secondary" else "rwm_expected_pct"
# Alphabetical, not by score. A place page is read by someone looking for
# a school they can name, and scanning for it is what the order should
# serve. /rankings is where the league-table ordering lives, and it keeps
# sorting by metric.
if "school_name" in rows.columns:
rows = rows.sort_values("school_name", key=lambda c: c.str.lower())
averages = {
m: (None if m not in rows.columns or rows[m].dropna().empty
else float(rows[m].dropna().mean()))
for m in ("rwm_expected_pct", "attainment_8_score")
}
# dict.fromkeys, not a list: SCHOOL_COLUMNS already ends with latitude and
# longitude, so concatenating them again selected each twice and pandas
# dropped one of every duplicated pair with a "columns are not unique"
# warning. Ordered de-duplication keeps the column order and the warning
# cannot come back.
#
# nursery_provision and parliamentary_constituency are not in
# SCHOOL_COLUMNS and the place table shows both. The `in rows.columns`
# guard is what keeps a mart the pipeline has not rebuilt working: those
# two are the optional GIAS columns data_loader degrades to NULL.
cols = [c for c in dict.fromkeys(
SCHOOL_COLUMNS + ["latitude", "longitude", "phase",
"nursery_provision",
"parliamentary_constituency",
"rwm_expected_pct", "attainment_8_score",
"total_pupils"])
if c in rows.columns]
return {
"place": {"kind": place.kind, "slug": place.slug, "name": place.name,
"count": len(place.urns),
"parent_authority": place.parent_authority,
# Every authority the place meaningfully sits in. SW19 is
# mostly Merton but partly Wandsworth; naming one asserts
# something false.
#
# The slug is null where that authority has no page of its
# own: City of London and the Isles of Scilly hold fewer
# schools than the threshold. Naming them is still right;
# linking them would be a 404.
"authorities": [
{"name": name,
"slug": (_slugify(name)
if f"authority:{_slugify(name)}" in registry
else None),
"count": n}
for name, n in place.authorities
],
# Only phases that clear the threshold, so the page links
# variants that exist rather than 404s.
"phases": [ph for ph in ("primary", "secondary")
if place.publishes_phase(ph)]},
"schools": clean_for_json(rows[cols]),
"averages": averages,
}
# Two characters. One is not a query — it matches thousands of schools and the
# response is useless, so it is not worth a round trip.
SUGGEST_MIN_QUERY = 2
@app.get("/api/suggest")
@limiter.limit("120/minute")
async def suggest_schools(
request: Request,
q: str = Query("", max_length=100),
limit: int = Query(8, ge=1, le=20),
):
"""School name suggestions, from Typesense alone.
Deliberately not a mode of /api/schools: that path filters and sorts the
full in-memory DataFrame, which is far too expensive to run per keystroke.
Nothing here returns an error for ordinary input. A short query, no
matches, or Typesense being unreachable are all 200 with an empty list —
a dropdown that quietly does not appear is the right failure for a
keystroke path, and there is no DataFrame fallback because the 25,000-row
substring scan is precisely what this endpoint exists to avoid.
120/minute rather than the default 60: a 200 ms debounce makes typing
legitimately bursty.
"""
query = q.strip()
if len(query) < SUGGEST_MIN_QUERY:
return {"suggestions": []}
return {"suggestions": suggest_schools_typesense(query, limit)}
@app.get("/api/flags")
@limiter.limit(f"{settings.rate_limit_per_minute}/minute")
async def get_feature_flags(request: Request):
"""Every declared flag and its current value.
Internal only. The Next proxy denies this path, because the response names
every unreleased feature the codebase knows about — which is exactly what
shipping dark is meant to keep quiet.
"""
return flags.all_flags()
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@app.get("/api/data-info")
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@limiter.limit(f"{settings.rate_limit_per_minute}/minute")
async def get_data_info(request: Request):
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"""Get information about loaded data."""
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# Get info directly from database
db_info = get_db_info()
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if db_info["total_schools"] == 0:
return {
"status": "no_data",
"message": "No data in marts. Run the annual EES pipeline to load KS2 data.",
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"data_source": "PostgreSQL",
}
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# Also get DataFrame-based stats for backwards compatibility
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df = load_school_data()
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if df.empty:
return {
"status": "no_data",
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"message": "No data available",
"data_source": "PostgreSQL",
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}
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years = [int(y) for y in sorted(df["year"].dropna().unique())]
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schools_per_year = {
str(int(k)): int(v)
for k, v in df.dropna(subset=["year"]).groupby("year")["urn"].nunique().to_dict().items()
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}
la_counts = {
str(k): int(v)
for k, v in df["local_authority"].value_counts().to_dict().items()
}
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return {
"status": "loaded",
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"data_source": "PostgreSQL",
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"total_records": int(len(df)),
"unique_schools": int(df["urn"].nunique()),
"years_available": years,
"schools_per_year": schools_per_year,
"local_authorities": la_counts,
}
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@app.post("/api/admin/reload")
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@limiter.limit("5/minute")
async def reload_data(
request: Request,
_: bool = Depends(verify_admin_api_key)
):
"""
Admin endpoint to force data reload (useful after data updates).
Requires X-API-Key header with valid admin API key.
"""
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clear_cache()
await asyncio.to_thread(load_school_data)
await asyncio.to_thread(load_latest_school_data)
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return {"status": "reloaded"}
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# =============================================================================
# SEO FILES
# =============================================================================
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@app.get("/favicon.svg")
async def favicon():
"""Serve favicon."""
return FileResponse(settings.frontend_dir / "favicon.svg", media_type="image/svg+xml")
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@app.get("/robots.txt")
async def robots_txt():
"""Serve robots.txt for search engine crawlers."""
return FileResponse(settings.frontend_dir / "robots.txt", media_type="text/plain")
def _serve_sitemap(name: str) -> Response:
global _sitemaps
if _sitemaps is None:
try:
_sitemaps = build_sitemaps()
except Exception as e:
raise HTTPException(status_code=503, detail=f"Sitemap unavailable: {e}")
if name not in _sitemaps:
raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail="No such sitemap")
return Response(content=_sitemaps[name], media_type="application/xml")
@app.get("/sitemap.xml")
async def sitemap_xml():
"""Serve the sitemap index."""
return _serve_sitemap("sitemap.xml")
@app.get("/sitemaps/{name}")
async def sitemap_child(name: str):
"""Serve a child sitemap (static.xml, or schools-N.xml)."""
return _serve_sitemap(name)
@app.post("/api/admin/regenerate-sitemap")
@limiter.limit("10/minute")
async def regenerate_sitemap(
request: Request,
_: bool = Depends(verify_admin_api_key),
):
"""Rebuild and cache the sitemap from current school data. Called by Airflow after data updates."""
global _sitemaps, _place_registry
# Places and sitemap are rebuilt together — they read the same marts, and
# letting them drift apart would submit URLs for places that no longer
# exist.
_place_registry = None
_sitemaps = build_sitemaps()
n = sum(x.count("<url>") for x in _sitemaps.values())
return {"status": "ok", "urls": n, "sitemaps": len(_sitemaps)}
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# Mount static files directly (must be after all routes to avoid catching API calls)
if settings.frontend_dir.exists():
app.mount("/static", StaticFiles(directory=settings.frontend_dir), name="static")
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if __name__ == "__main__":
import uvicorn
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uvicorn.run(app, host=settings.host, port=settings.port)