fix(api): treat "16 plus" as secondary, the way PHASE_GROUPS already does
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GIAS phase 6 is "16 plus", and PHASE_GROUPS deliberately files it in the
secondary group. The payload helper decided the same question with
`"secondary" in phase_text`, which that value does not satisfy — so a
sixth-form college was handed the primary bucket and offered infant schools
as its peers, with the KS2 metric key to label them. No crash; just a page
confidently showing the wrong schools.

The decision now lives in similar_schools.is_secondary_phase, beside the
PHASE_GROUPS bucket it selects from, so the two cannot drift again. A test
pins them together.

The same binary assumption had a second output. computeSchoolFlags tests for
the substring too, so a 16-plus school renders the primary template, and the
composer was labelling the section from the template: "Other primary schools
near <sixth form college>" above a row of secondaries. The section now
derives its noun from the school's own phase, which also removes the
duplicated wording from both composers. A 16-plus school's candidates span
the whole secondary group, so no single noun fits and it gets the honest
general one.

Reported in review on #150.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
import { render, screen } from '@testing-library/react';
import {
nearbyNoun,
SimilarSchoolsSection,
shouldRenderSimilar,
} from '@/components/school/SimilarSchoolsSection';
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ function renderSection(similar: SimilarSchool[]) {
<SimilarSchoolsSection
urn={100001}
schoolName="Meadowbrook Primary School"
phaseNoun="primary"
phase="Primary"
thisMetricValue={72}
similar={similar}
/>,
@@ -85,6 +86,37 @@ describe('the claim the lede makes', () => {
});
});
describe('what the lede calls the set', () => {
it.each([
['Primary', 'primary schools'],
['Middle deemed primary', 'primary schools'],
['Secondary', 'secondary schools'],
['Middle deemed secondary', 'secondary schools'],
['All-through', 'all-through schools'],
// GIAS phase 6. Its candidates span the whole secondary group, so no
// single noun fits and it takes the honest general one.
['16 plus', 'schools and colleges'],
['', 'schools'],
[null, 'schools'],
])('calls a %s school\'s neighbours "%s"', (phase, expected) => {
expect(nearbyNoun(phase)).toBe(expected);
});
it('never calls a sixth form college\'s neighbours primary schools', () => {
render(
<SimilarSchoolsSection
urn={100001}
schoolName="Barnet Sixth Form College"
phase="16 plus"
thisMetricValue={null}
similar={[school(), school({ urn: 100003 })]}
/>,
);
expect(screen.getByText(/Other schools and colleges near Barnet Sixth Form College/)).toBeInTheDocument();
expect(screen.queryByText(/primary schools/)).not.toBeInTheDocument();
});
});
describe('cards', () => {
it('links each school to its canonical slug', () => {
renderSection([school(), school({ urn: 100003, school_name: 'Oakfield Primary School' })]);