diff --git a/nextjs-app/__tests__/components/DestinationsSection.test.tsx b/nextjs-app/__tests__/components/DestinationsSection.test.tsx
index 11002e7..d744423 100644
--- a/nextjs-app/__tests__/components/DestinationsSection.test.tsx
+++ b/nextjs-app/__tests__/components/DestinationsSection.test.tsx
@@ -89,3 +89,61 @@ describe('DestinationsSection', () => {
     expect(container.firstChild).toBeNull();
   });
 });
+
+describe('the detail table keeps the three statuses apart', () => {
+  // 'suppressed' and 'not_applicable' are different claims, and the mart, the
+  // SQLAlchemy model and the serialiser all preserve the difference. The table
+  // used to key its Share column off `percentage === null`, which is true for
+  // both, so a category that simply does not apply was labelled "withheld" —
+  // while the Pupils column beside it rendered blank.
+  const mixedPhase: DestinationPhase = {
+    cohort_year: '2022/23',
+    groups: {
+      all: {
+        cohort: 180,
+        categories: [
+          cell('school_sixth_form', 75),
+          cell('sixth_form_college', null, 'suppressed'),
+          cell('further_education', null, 'suppressed'),
+          cell('apprenticeship', null, 'not_applicable'),
+        ],
+      },
+    },
+  };
+
+  const rowFor = (container: HTMLElement, category: string) =>
+    Array.from(container.querySelectorAll('tbody tr'))
+      .find(tr => tr.textContent?.includes(category));
+
+  it('never labels a not-applicable category as withheld', () => {
+    const { container } = render(<DestinationsSection destinations={mixedPhase} />);
+    const row = rowFor(container, 'Apprenticeship');
+    expect(row).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(row!.textContent).not.toMatch(/withheld/i);
+  });
+
+  it('labels a genuinely suppressed category as withheld in both columns', () => {
+    const { container } = render(<DestinationsSection destinations={mixedPhase} />);
+    const row = rowFor(container, 'Sixth-form college');
+    expect(row).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(row!.querySelectorAll('td')).toHaveLength(2);
+    Array.from(row!.querySelectorAll('td')).forEach(td =>
+      expect(td.textContent).toMatch(/withheld/i));
+  });
+
+  it('the two columns of a row never disagree about what the row is', () => {
+    const { container } = render(<DestinationsSection destinations={mixedPhase} />);
+    Array.from(container.querySelectorAll('tbody tr')).forEach(tr => {
+      const cells = Array.from(tr.querySelectorAll('td'))
+        .map(td => /withheld/i.test(td.textContent ?? ''));
+      expect(new Set(cells).size).toBe(1);
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('shows a published category its real figures', () => {
+    const { container } = render(<DestinationsSection destinations={mixedPhase} />);
+    const row = rowFor(container, 'State-funded school sixth form');
+    expect(row!.textContent).toMatch(/75/);
+    expect(row!.textContent).toMatch(/42%/);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/nextjs-app/components/school/DestinationsView.tsx b/nextjs-app/components/school/DestinationsView.tsx
index 2dae294..f538d57 100644
--- a/nextjs-app/components/school/DestinationsView.tsx
+++ b/nextjs-app/components/school/DestinationsView.tsx
@@ -47,6 +47,44 @@ function cellsFor(group: DestinationGroup, card: CardGroup): DestinationCell[] {
   return group.cells.filter(c => wanted.has(c.category));
 }
 
+/**
+ * One cell of the detail table.
+ *
+ * The three statuses are three different statements and the table has to keep
+ * them apart, because the whole pipeline does — the mart, the SQLAlchemy model
+ * and the serialiser all preserve the difference deliberately:
+ *
+ *   published      the figure
+ *   suppressed     DfE withheld it to protect a small number of pupils
+ *   not_applicable this destination does not apply to this school at all
+ *
+ * An earlier version keyed the share column off `percentage === null`, which is
+ * also true for not_applicable, so a category that simply does not apply was
+ * labelled "withheld" — while the pupils column beside it rendered blank. Both
+ * columns now derive from `status`, so they cannot disagree.
+ */
+function cellValue(
+  cell: DestinationCell, cohort: number, kind: 'pupils' | 'share',
+) {
+  if (cell.status === 'suppressed') {
+    return <span className={styles.withheldMark}>withheld</span>;
+  }
+  const notApplicable = (
+    <span className={styles.notApplicable} title="Does not apply to this school">
+      &mdash;
+    </span>
+  );
+
+  if (cell.status !== 'published' || cell.pupils === null) return notApplicable;
+  if (kind === 'pupils') return cell.pupils;
+
+  // Percentages come from the mart, but a published count with no published
+  // percentage is recoverable from the cohort — both halves are published, so
+  // nothing withheld is involved. Same derivation the bar widths use.
+  const share = cell.percentage ?? (cohort > 0 ? (cell.pupils / cohort) * 100 : null);
+  return share === null ? notApplicable : `${Math.round(share)}%`;
+}
+
 export function DestinationsView({
   destinations, phase,
 }: { destinations: DestinationPhase; phase: 'ks4' | 'ks5' }) {
@@ -193,27 +231,19 @@ export function DestinationsView({
               const cell = group.cells.find(c => c.category === category);
               if (!cell) return [];
               const card = cardGroupFor(category);
-              const isWithheld = cell.status === 'suppressed';
               return [(
                 <tr
                   key={category}
                   data-group={card ?? 'none'}
+                  data-status={cell.status}
                   className={dimmed(card) ? styles.dim : ''}
                 >
                   <th scope="row" className={styles.rowName}>
                     <span className={`${styles.swatch} ${styles[category]}`} />
                     {CATEGORY_LABELS[category]}
                   </th>
-                  <td>
-                    {isWithheld
-                      ? <span className={styles.withheldMark}>withheld</span>
-                      : cell.pupils}
-                  </td>
-                  <td>
-                    {isWithheld || cell.percentage === null
-                      ? <span className={styles.withheldMark}>withheld</span>
-                      : `${Math.round(cell.percentage)}%`}
-                  </td>
+                  <td>{cellValue(cell, group.cohort, 'pupils')}</td>
+                  <td>{cellValue(cell, group.cohort, 'share')}</td>
                 </tr>
               )];
             })}
diff --git a/nextjs-app/components/school/destinations.module.css b/nextjs-app/components/school/destinations.module.css
index 0985196..28896f3 100644
--- a/nextjs-app/components/school/destinations.module.css
+++ b/nextjs-app/components/school/destinations.module.css
@@ -297,3 +297,11 @@
     font-size: var(--step--2);
     color: var(--text-muted);
 }
+
+/* A destination that does not apply to this school. Deliberately not the
+   withheld badge: "we are not told" and "there is nothing to tell" are
+   different statements, and the rest of the pipeline keeps them apart. */
+.notApplicable {
+    color: var(--text-muted);
+    cursor: help;
+}