fix: order nearby schools by distance, not by how alike they are
Reported from staging: a Catholic primary showed six Catholic primaries, none of them close enough to be a real option, and omitted the community school down the road. Three causes, compounding. Ranking put tier before distance, so a faith match at 2.9 miles outranked a community school at 0.3. The ENOUGH=3 stopping rule — added so a cap of six would not drag in weak distant matches — filled the row from the best tier before it ever widened, which is what made every card Catholic. And a 3-mile tier-1 radius is sane for a secondary and most of a city for a primary, whose catchments are routinely under a mile. The premise was backwards. For a parent, distance is a constraint and intake is a preference; a school beyond a primary catchment is not a weaker option, it is not an option. So distance now decides the order and nothing else does. The hard filters are untouched — they were always where the defensibility lived. Similarity survives as chips on the card: reported, so a reader applies their own weighting, rather than ranked, so we apply ours for them. Reach is capped per phase (primary 2, secondary 6, post-16 10) as a sanity bound, not a target: ordering already handles density, so the cap only decides what happens where an area is sparse. A primary with nothing inside two miles now renders no section, which is the honest answer. Deleted: the tier system, the stopping rule, the tier-dependent lede, the `tier` field, the tier-3 fallback chip and its style. select_similar also stops taking is_secondary — it reads the phase from the subject's own row, so no caller can hand it one that disagrees with the data. The heading is now "Other schools nearby". The hard filters still guarantee a comparable set, but nothing ranks on likeness, so the heading no longer says it does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ export default async function SchoolPage({ params }: SchoolPageProps) {
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admissions: admissions ?? null,
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admissionDistance: admission_distance ?? null,
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hasLocation: school_info.latitude != null && school_info.longitude != null,
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hasSimilarSchools: shouldRenderSimilar(similarSchools),
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hasNearbySchools: shouldRenderSimilar(similarSchools),
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yearlyDataLength: yearly_data.length,
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};
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const primaryNavItems = buildNavItems(primaryFlags, navInput);
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