Every place page built its phase links as /schools/[slug]/[phase], the
shape that belongs to towns alone.
On an authority page that pointed into the town namespace. For 87 of the
151 authorities the target does not exist and the link 404s; for the
other 64 it resolves to the town of the same name — a different set of
schools, which is precisely the near-duplicate the two namespaces were
introduced to prevent. On an outcode page it 404s outright.
Two causes behind it, both a rule written twice and inherited by only
one of the places that needed it.
The authority phase route was in the spec and dropped by the plan, which
built the three bare routes and no fourth. The sitemap is generated from
the place registry, which was right about them all along, so 302
authority phase URLs have been submitted to Google and every one 404s.
Adding the route makes the sitemap true and serves a real query —
admissions are authority-run, so "primary schools in Kent" is how a
parent searches before they have settled on a town.
The outcode variants were the opposite: the registry computed phases for
outcodes although the spec gives them no route, and the sitemap knew to
skip them while the API did not. The registry now decides alone, and the
sitemap's duplicate of that rule is gone.
Also: an authority under the five-school threshold has no page, so the
API sends a null slug for it and the page names it without linking.
Two English authorities are in that position. It was unreachable in
today's data — verified across the EC and TR outcodes — but the thin
place redirect would have sent a reader to a 404 the year it isn't.
The e2e journey now walks every /schools link a page of each family
emits and requires a 200, which is the check that was missing.
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Someone on a place page is usually looking for a school they can name, so the
order should serve scanning for it rather than ranking. /api/rankings keeps
its league-table ordering; this is a place-page decision, not a site-wide one.
Sorted case-insensitively, or a capitalised name would sort ahead of every
lowercase one.
The change made five pieces of copy untrue, so they go with it. The phase
variant titled itself "— Ranked", and all four route families described
themselves as "ranked by SATs and GCSE results". A page that opens by claiming
an order it does not keep is worse than one that claims nothing.
The ItemList markup carried `position` with no declared order, which reads as
a ranking. It now declares ItemListOrderAscending, so the structured data says
what the table does.
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SW19 is mostly Merton but partly Wandsworth, and the page said only Merton.
The cause was one field doing two jobs: _parent_authority takes the modal
authority, which is right for a 301 target and wrong as a statement about
where a place is.
This is not a corner case. A quarter of viable outcodes (425 of 1,760) and a
third of viable towns (263 of 783) cross an authority boundary — Bedford the
town spans Bedford and Central Bedfordshire.
Place now carries `authorities`, every authority holding at least a tenth of
the schools and at least two of them, largest first. parent_authority stays
single and unchanged, because a redirect still needs one target.
The share threshold exists because GIAS carries postcode errors: EN6 lists two
Shropshire schools among fourteen in Hertfordshire, and a bare "any authority
present" rule would print those as though they were real. A place too small or
too fragmented to clear the threshold still names its largest, so the page
never goes silent about where it is.
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The heading sat on the right edge of the column and every value on the left.
A specificity collision, not a layout problem: the two were aligned by
different selectors and only one of them won.
.table td (0,1,1) text-align: left <- won for the value
.num (0,1,0) text-align: right <- lost
.table th:last-child (0,2,1) text-align: right <- won for the heading
The heading and the value cell now share one class and one rule, so they
cannot drift apart again whatever else changes around them.
The column also stretched to half the table. It now hugs its content with
width:1% and nowrap, so the school name takes the remaining width — which is
what made the gap read as misalignment on a wide screen, and what crowded the
name column on a narrow one.
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Three presentation faults on the place pages, all found by looking at a
rendered page rather than at a test.
An unphased place page showed one primary-only measure for a list holding both
phases: 8 of 27 rows on /schools/brentwood were blank, because secondaries
have no reading-writing-maths score. Picking the other measure would only have
inverted which rows were empty, and putting both in one column would have
mixed a percentage with a 0-90 score. Each phase now gets its own table, so a
blank cell means the school genuinely has no published result — which is worth
saying, and now says "Not published" rather than a bare dash.
"RWM expected" was invented here. The site already names the measure in
METRIC_DEFINITIONS, surfaced at /api/metrics: "Reading, Writing & Maths
Combined %". The heading now reads "Reading, writing & maths" with the full
definition in the tooltip.
Links carried no class at all, so they rendered as default blue underlined
browser links beside a site that styles table links as body colour with a
brand hover. They now follow RankingsView's convention, and running-copy links
take the brand colour.
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Every place page shipped as 'Schools in Brentwood - Compare 27 Schools |
schoolcompare | schoolcompare'. The root layout's title template appends
'| schoolcompare' to any plain-string title, and all four place routes already
carried the brand. W8 opted the other routes out with an absolute title; the
place routes were written afterwards and did not inherit the lesson.
~2,600 titles affected, and the repetition pushed them past Google's
truncation point, so the doubled brand displaced real words in the result.
An e2e journey now asserts no title repeats the brand, across the static
routes and a place page, so this cannot come back on a route added later.
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/schools/[place]/[phase] shipped as routes but reached nothing. The sitemap
emitted one URL per registry entry and the registry had no phase dimension, so
~950 pages were absent from every sitemap — and PlaceView did not link them
either, leaving them reachable by nothing at all.
That is the query shape the baseline actually showed: 'primary schools in
beccles', 'secondary schools in brentwood'. Publishing the routes without a
path in meant building for the demand and then hiding from it.
Place now carries phase_urns so the per-phase threshold can be applied without
re-querying, the sitemap emits a variant wherever a phase clears the threshold
on its own, and the API exposes the qualifying phases so the place page links
only variants that exist. Outcodes are excluded: nobody searches 'primary
schools in SW11' and those routes do not exist.
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ItemList tells Google the page is a ranked set rather than prose;
BreadcrumbList puts the place in a hierarchy. School URLs in the markup are
absolute on the canonical host, since a relative URL in JSON-LD is ambiguous.
Eight journeys covering all four families, the two-namespace guarantee, the
threshold, the canonical, the sitemap and the local-versus-England line — the
last because that comparison is the reason these pages are not a name dropped
into a template.
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Every generateStaticParams is gated behind PRERENDER_PLACES and wrapped in the
same try/catch the school route uses. The plan claimed authority pages were
'few enough to always prebuild' — but few enough still means the API must be
reachable at build time, and in CI it is not: the build failed with
ECONNREFUSED rather than degrading to ISR.
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The baseline says these pages already rank and are not clicked. 'compare
school performance' sits at position 6.1 with 0.43% CTR; 'compare schools' at
7.2 with 0.87%. The brand query 'school compare' draws 9.16% from the same
neighbourhood of the same results page, which rules out a ranking explanation
— when the snippet gives a reason to click, it gets clicked.
These SERPs are owned by the DfE's own 'Compare school performance' service.
The old title put a lowercase brand nobody searches for in the most valuable
pixels, then a near-paraphrase of that service's name. Beside the government's
own result it read as a lookalike.
Intent in the title, differentiator in the description. Titles now match what
people type, and the descriptions carry the one fact gov.uk does not publish:
how close you had to live to get a place.
/compare deliberately takes the tool phrasing rather than the homepage's, so
the two pages stop competing for one phrase. The root layout's default and
Open Graph copy were saying something different again; they now agree.
No hard school counts in any of it. The corpus moves with every data refresh
and this repo has already shipped one copy bug of that kind.
Tests guard the mechanics — SERP length, intent keyword, the differentiator,
no brand-first title — and leave the wording free to iterate.
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25,193 schools make ~317 million pairs. The bare page stays indexable as the
landing page for the head term; the parameter space goes noindex, follow so
its outbound links still count.
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The homepage read eleven search params and declared no canonical, so every
filter combination was a crawlable near-duplicate of the page we most want to
rank. Rankings and admissions declared none either.
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The apex 301s to www at Cloudflare, but metadataBase, the school-page
canonical, robots.txt's Sitemap: line and the sitemap's own <loc> entries all
named the apex. Every one of those pointed Google at a redirect.
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The failing journey was wrong; the page was correct.
Locator: getByRole('button', { name: 'Distance' })
Expected: 0 Received: 1
getByRole matches accessible names by case-insensitive SUBSTRING, so
{ name: 'Distance' } matched <button>Show this distance on a map</button> —
the map toggle added by the same feature. The assertion was meant to say "no
Distance tab in the admissions segmented control" and instead said "no button
anywhere whose label contains the word distance".
Now scoped to the control it is about, via its own aria-label, and read
positively: the tab list must contain "This year" and must not contain
"Distance". An absence check against an unscoped locator passes for the wrong
reason the moment the selector stops matching, which is exactly how the
regression this test guards would return unnoticed.
Two sibling locators had the same weakness and are tightened: 'Check' is a
prefix of the button's own busy label "Checking…", and the figure matcher
accepted `(miles|m)` — a leftover from the mixed-unit era that would have kept
passing if the headline regressed to metres, which is the thing #105 just
fixed.
Tightening that matcher surfaced a real defect behind it. The cut-off figure
and its metric support are flex children with the gap drawn by CSS and nothing
between them in the text layer, so the element read "0.88 miles1.4 km" —
what a screen reader announces, and why a `miles\b` boundary could never
match. Both templates now carry an explicit space. Whitespace text nodes are
not rendered as flex items, so the reading changes and the layout does not.
Verified against staging: 54/54.
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The postcode check read "69 m away — inside the September 2026 cut-off of
0.17 miles". Both numbers are right and the sentence is still useless: the
reader has to convert one of them to check a comparison we had already made
for them.
The cause was a readability rule of mine in formatCutoffDistance, which swapped
to metres below 100m on the grounds that "0.04 miles" carries less than "69 m".
Taken one figure at a time that holds. Taken in a sentence containing two
figures it guarantees a mismatch whenever they fall either side of the
threshold — and a 270m cut-off with a nearby home does exactly that.
Miles now lead everywhere. It is the unit UK school admissions runs on:
councils publish cut-offs in miles (90% of the collected source rows), and it
is what a parent has already been quoted in their booklet and offer letter.
The metric figure survives only as support beside the miles figure on the
Admissions tile, where it converts the same value rather than presenting a
second one to compare.
Below 0.01 miles the decimal places run out rather than the unit being wrong,
so a very short distance is described — "under 0.01 miles" — instead of
rounding to a flat "0.00 miles", which would read as no distance at all.
Both figures in the verdict now go through one formatter with no fallback that
could reach for another unit. The old `?? "N m"` fallbacks on that line were a
second route to the same defect and are gone.
Covered by a sweep over sixty home/cut-off combinations spanning the old
switch point, asserting no verdict contains a metric reading and that exactly
two miles figures appear; plus the reported case pinned verbatim, and an e2e
guard on the rendered verdict.
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Earlier years are to become a paid feature, so they stop being published.
The load-bearing part is that this is a change to the API, not only to the
page. /api/schools/{urn} is public and unauthenticated: leaving
admission_distance_history in the payload while declining to render it would
have handed the whole record to anyone who opened the network tab. It is
withheld at the source, and the page follows.
Nothing changes upstream. The tap, the plausibility band and
fact_admission_distance are untouched and still load every published year, so
restoring history for entitled callers is a change to one function in
data_loader rather than a re-collection.
What the reader now gets is the latest figure on the Admissions tile, and a
Distance section that answers the question the number alone cannot: whether
their own address falls inside it. Retitled to "How far away are you?", which
is what it now does — the previous title described a record that is no longer
there.
Removed with the history: the trend chart, the year-by-year table, the
per-year verdict strip, the trend summary and the coverage note, along with
their CSS. The section goes from 743px to 417px.
One consequence worth naming. A run of years used to soften a single close
call — a home just outside one year's cut-off was usually inside another. With
one year published, the "too close to call" band is the entire safety margin
between a parent and a place they do not have, so the verdict now names its
year, and the three outcomes are tinted apart rather than distinguished by
wording alone.
The existing stylesheet test earned its keep here: the three verdict classes
were referenced before they were written, and it caught them. Unstyled, a
"beyond the cut-off" result would have been indistinguishable from an "inside"
one — the exact failure the longhand class map was written to prevent.
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The admissions card measured 1503px on a live school page — half the height
of every section put together, and nearly three times the next largest — with
its default view rendering as four tiles adrift in about 1080px of blank card.
The cause was a layout trick meeting content it was never sized for. The
admissions views are stacked in one grid cell so switching them never shifts
layout, and the hidden ones keep their box: only visibility is dropped. That
works while the views are comparable. The distance view added in #102 carries
a chart, a table and a map, came to 1402px against the tile grid's 316px, and
pinned every other view to its height — including the one that renders by
default, which nobody had clicked.
Rather than only unpinning it, the detail moves out. Every other topic on the
page is a section with a nav entry, and "how close did we need to live, and
would we have got in?" is a topic, not a variant reading of the intake
figures. The headline number stays on the Admissions tile where the intake
story is; the record behind it now lives in a Distance section directly below.
admissions 1503px -> 554px
distance new -> 743px (median section on the page is ~528px)
Three further changes, each of which also makes the content better rather
than only shorter:
* The map renders on request. Before a postcode is entered it is a circle
drawn round a school, and it costs a Leaflet bundle and 240px to say so;
a successful check opens it automatically, which is the point at which it
starts answering something. Map height 320px -> 240px.
* The chart appears only at the four published years that let the summary
state a direction. Below that we already refuse to call the series a
trend, and a line through three points asserts one regardless of what the
sentence beneath it admits. The table carries those years anyway, with
the reasons a line cannot show.
* Three caveat paragraphs become one. They said walking-route twice and
made the same point about priorities in two voices. It now sits in
CutoffDistanceDetail rather than inside the check, so it still renders
for a school with coordinates missing, where there is a table but no map
and no check.
The new e2e guard asserts no section exceeds 2.5x the median section height.
Measuring the card's internals cannot catch this: the tile grid is flex: 1,
so it absorbs the stretch and every box still looks full. The first version
of this test targeted an arbitrary primary, passed against the live bug, and
proved nothing; pointed at a school that actually holds cut-off history it
fails on staging with "#admissions is 1459px against a 526px median".
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Completes the last-distance-offered feature against the mockup: the
year-by-year record, the same numbers drawn over real streets, and the
reader's own address measured against them.
Serving the history
The first cut deliberately served only the latest year, because a plain
series would draw a trend line straight through gaps that are absences of
publication, not of a cut-off. That reasoning is answered rather than
abandoned: cutoffYearRows classifies every year in the span, and the chart
breaks the line rather than interpolating across it.
A missing year is not one fact but three. It may be unpublished; it may be
a year the school was not oversubscribed; or there may be no record at all.
Collapsing them into "no data" throws away the reassuring case and hides
the important caveat, so each is stated in words in the table.
The claim is held to what the data supports. fact_admissions.oversubscribed
compares FIRST PREFERENCES against places, which does not establish that
every applicant was offered one — so the copy says "places available on
first preferences" and a test asserts the stronger claim never appears.
The trend summary is not a verdict
It names both endpoints and their years and lets the reader conclude. It is
withheld below four published points, and a swing under a tenth of the
earlier figure is reported as "broadly the same" rather than dressed up as
a direction.
The postcode check
This is the only place on the site that answers a question about a family
rather than a school, so most of the care went into what it refuses to say.
postcodes.io returns a centroid covering roughly fifteen addresses, which
against a 500 m cut-off is a fifth of the whole distance — so a margin
inside 100 m returns "too close to call" rather than a place a family does
not have. Unpublished years count as unknown, never as a pass. The limits
are stated before the check is used, not revealed with the answer.
The postcode is geocoded in the browser and never stored.
Both templates
Banded and selective secondaries are exactly where this matters most, so
the detail is shared. The primary page gives it a third tab; the secondary
page is one flat panel by design and renders it inline.
Absence is explained rather than reported. A selective school's missing
figure is explained by how it admits; a consistently undersubscribed school
reads as good news.
Also makes the batch loader's test double honour ORDER BY. It was a no-op,
so "latest row per URN" was really "first row in the fixture" and the test
would have passed with the sort reversed or removed.
Verified: 214 frontend tests, 54 backend, 45/53 e2e green against staging
(the 8 cut-off journeys skip until the DAG runs). Rendered offline against
the real compiled CSS in both themes and at 390px; every new surface clears
WCAG AA, measured on composited pixels.
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Adds the cut-off distance a parent actually asks about — "how close do we
need to live?" — end to end: a Singer tap, dbt staging and mart models, an
Airflow DAG, and a tile on both detail templates. 3,597 schools across 57
local authorities carry a figure; the rest are unchanged.
There is no national source for this. Each LA publishes its own cut-offs in
its own format, and the collected CSV is transcribed from PDFs, spreadsheets
and web pages — so most of the work here is deciding what is safe to show.
Data
* tap-uk-school-distance loads the CSV verbatim into raw. Keyed on
(urn, year, school_name), because school_name carries the admission
route: (urn, year) alone collides on 118 keys and a reload would have
silently dropped every band but one.
* stg_school_distance applies a 25 m – 25 km plausibility band. The source
contains 0.0-mile rows (published where a school filled on a higher
criterion), 1-metre cut-offs, and one reading 533 miles — ~4% of rows,
all of which would put a visibly wrong number on a live page.
* fact_admission_distance collapses routes to one row per school per year
using the furthest, and keeps route_count so the page can say the figure
is the widest of several bands rather than the one for a given child.
Serving
* Kept out of fact_admissions: that mart is EES-derived and near-complete
for England, this one covers 57 LAs, and the two refresh independently.
* Latest year only. Coverage is ragged — a school may have 2021 and 2026
and nothing between — so a history array would invite a trend line drawn
through gaps that are absences of publication, not of a cut-off.
* The Admissions section now renders on either source. 3% of the schools
that render have a cut-off and no EES admissions row, and gating on
admissions alone would have hidden the figure on those pages.
Interface
* The year travels with the figure everywhere it appears; a cut-off
detached from its admissions round is not a fact about anything.
* "Not a fixed catchment — it moves every year" sits under every instance,
because that is the inference a parent will otherwise draw.
* Replaces a hardcoded "Historical distance cut-off data is not available
for this school" that appeared on every secondary page, including the
ones whose council does publish it. The absence is now stated only when
it is real, and names the authority that would hold it.
The tint costs the muted tokens their AA margin: measured on the composited
backdrop (not the computed one, which reports the untinted card), --text-muted
falls to 4.09:1 in dark theme. The tile uses --text-secondary instead — 6.50:1
dark, 6.60:1 light.
The DAG is manual, like the other annual ones: councils publish on allocation
day, each on its own timetable, so there is no date worth scheduling against.
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The server/client split moved the header and sticky nav markup into
SchoolDetailShell, but their responsive rules stayed behind in
schoolSections.module.css. CSS Modules hash class names per file, so those
rules stopped matching entirely: on mobile the header details block never
collapsed ("Show all details" e2e journey failed), the toggle itself never
appeared, and the section-nav mobile swap (menu button in, link row out)
never applied.
Ports the stranded blocks into SchoolDetailShell.module.css verbatim: the
768px header block (stacked header, wrapped meta pills, details toggle +
collapse) and the 640px section-nav blocks (scroll-fade mask, bottom-sheet
panel, control swap). Adds a jest guard that every class a components/school
component references is defined in the stylesheet that component imports —
it fails on the three classes that had no rule at all here
(headerDetailsOpen, atEnd, sectionNavBackLabel).
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Leftover from the mechanical extraction: the shell still called
computeSchoolFlags() and derived isReportCard / ofstedInspectedDate /
oeifAreas / oeifAllSameGrade / deprivationDesc / primaryAvg / secondaryAvg on
every render, duplicating work page.tsx already does. None of those values
were referenced in its JSX anymore -- that logic moved to the section
composers.
The chrome needs only four locally-derived values (latestResults, phase,
isAllThrough, hasLocation), all one-liners over props it already owns.
Removing them made seven props dead, which TypeScript caught at both call
sites: absenceData, ofsted, admissions, admissionsHistory, deprivation,
finance and nationalAvg now go straight to the section composers and never
reach the client component. The shell's surface is down to schoolInfo,
yearlyData, census, navItems and children.
No behaviour change: 155 tests pass and the characterization tests remain
byte-identical to the commit that introduced them.
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page.tsx now composes the sections and passes them through SchoolDetailShell
as children, so ~1,300 lines of static markup stop shipping as client
JavaScript. The shell keeps what is genuinely interactive: back link, header
reveal, hero map, compare CTA, sticky nav and scroll-spy.
The scroll-spy already located sections via document.getElementById, so it
works unchanged against server-rendered children.
Charts needed a client wrapper: next/dynamic with ssr:false is illegal in a
Server Component, so components/school/charts.tsx is the boundary that keeps
Chart.js (64 KB gz) lazy and browser-only.
Measured on this build:
- school route client chunk: 8 KB gz (33 KB raw)
- total static JS across all chunks: 380.6 -> 350.7 KB gz
- section markup is absent from every client chunk ("Got their first choice",
"Ofsted reports", "Most deprived" etc. all return 0 hits); shell strings
still present, as expected
- shared baseline unchanged at 172 KB gz -- out of scope, as designed
The 14 characterization tests pass byte-identical to the commit that
introduced them. Only the render helper changed.
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Pure data-shape logic moves out of the client components so page.tsx can
compute the section list on the server without importing them.
The secondary page is not a variant of the primary one -- different section
ids (gcse, wellbeing), different flags, and History gated on more than one
year rather than at least one -- so it gets its own computeSecondaryFlags and
buildSecondaryNavItems rather than bending a shared function.
Adds 16 unit tests covering the all-through and special-school branches,
previously reachable only through a full component render.
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Both detail views fetched /api/national-averages in a useEffect, so the
England-comparison deltas popped in after hydration and every section that
uses them was pinned to the client. The page now fetches it in parallel with
the school details (backend-cached 1h, degrades to null) and passes it down.
Removes one client round-trip per detail page and unblocks the section
extraction.
Characterization tests pass unmodified; only the render helper changed.
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14 characterization tests covering Ofsted (both OEIF and Report Card layouts),
KS2 results with the England delta, KS4 Attainment 8 / Progress 8 / EBacc,
all-through dual rendering, special-school comparison suppression (PR #70),
the admissions year/trend toggle, and conditional section rendering.
All rendering goes through renderSchoolDetail(), the single seam the
server/client split is allowed to change. The assertions must survive the
refactor unmodified.
Excludes __tests__/support from testMatch: it holds fixtures and helpers, not
suites, and the glob was failing them as empty test files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
jsdom provides neither IntersectionObserver nor scrollTo; both detail views
use them. Adds four fixtures (primary, secondary, all-through, special)
covering the branches the characterization tests will pin.
SchoolResult carries 57 required nullable fields, so fixtures are built from
an all-null base row and override only what they exercise.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adding a school with no performance data to a comparison made every
school's trend line disappear until that school was removed.
Root cause: /api/compare returns such a school with a single phantom
yearly_data row (the dim_school LEFT JOIN) whose year is null. In
buildCompareChart, Math.trunc(null) is 0, so the axis was seeded at
year 0; fillAcademicYears then walked 0, 101, 202, … and hit its
50-step cap long before reaching the real years, leaving every
school's series mapped entirely to null.
Fix: ignore yearly rows without a real numeric year when building the
axis and the per-school year map. Regression test added.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three review points on the special-schools change:
1. Copy accuracy — the context note said "Its pupils have special educational
needs" for every isSpecialSchool() match, but the helper also matches pupil
referral units and alternative provision, whose pupils are educated outside
a mainstream setting (e.g. after exclusion) and are not necessarily SEND.
Extracted a shared <SpecialSchoolNote> with type-aware copy: SEND wording
only for genuine special schools; PRUs/AP get their own accurate wording.
2. Same-school trend was conflated with the England comparison — SchoolRow's
year-over-year trend arrow (and the school's own figure) were gated on the
same flag that drops the vs-England delta, hiding a still-meaningful trend
for special schools with real data. Split the two: the school's OWN RWM
figure + trend show whenever there's a real value (special schools
included; only a placeholder all-zero row is hidden); only the vs-England
delta is additionally dropped for special/PRU/AP. Mirrored in
SecondarySchoolRow (own Attainment 8 shown; only the vs-LA delta dropped).
3. De-duplicated the .specialNote CSS (was copy-pasted between the two detail
view module files) into SpecialSchoolNote.module.css, owned by the shared
component so it can't drift.
New SpecialSchoolNote unit tests assert SEND wording for special schools and
NOT for PRUs/AP. tsc clean; 112/112 unit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
Special schools, PRUs and alternative provision teach pupils with SEND who
sit the same KS2/KS4 assessments but very few reach the mainstream "expected
standard". Their headline attainment is therefore ~0% (or a very low
Attainment 8), and the site was comparing that to the England average and
painting it red — e.g. Greenmead School (a community special school) rendered
as "0.0% — −62 pts below England average" with three 0% red SATs bars. That
portrays a special school as catastrophically failing against a benchmark
that doesn't fit it.
Add a shared `isSpecialSchool()` helper (detects every DfE special-school
establishment type — all contain "special" — plus PRUs / alternative
provision) and drop the mainstream England comparison + "below" framing for
these schools across every surface:
- Detail (primary + secondary): a plain-English context note explaining the
school is special and why the comparison isn't shown; England-average delta
chips, "England avg" hints, the SATs national markers, the Attainment-8
"vs national" bar and the trend chart's England overlay are all suppressed.
An all-zero placeholder SATs row hides the (empty) subject bar chart and the
"why is combined lower" bridge.
- Rankings / search rows (primary + secondary): the mainstream RWM / Attainment
8 stat shows "—" with no "vs national" delta, instead of "0% · −62 vs
national".
- Compare: special schools' attainment values are dropped (no misleading dot
at 0% / no "Below England average" chip); progress banding, which IS a fair
measure for special schools, is kept.
Belt-and-braces zero-guard: a whole-row zero attainment (special or a
suppressed cohort) is also treated as not-comparable, while a legitimate
single 0 (e.g. 0% exceeding at a mainstream school) stays comparable.
Tests: new isSpecialSchool unit tests (every DfE special type matched, no
mainstream false positives); an e2e journey asserts Greenmead shows the
special-school note and no England-average comparison. tsc clean; 108/108 unit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
Batch A of applying compare-screen learnings to the detail page (points 2-3):
- Point 2: the legacy OEIF sub-judgement grid rendered any non-null value
via OFSTED_LABELS[value], so Ofsted's sentinel code 9 ('not applicable')
leaked as an undefined label, and the sixth-form judgement was dropped
entirely. New shared ofstedLegacyAreas() helper returns only real grades
(1-4) and includes Sixth Form provision. Both detail views + the
all-same-grade check use it.
- Point 3: the OEIF disclaimer always claimed 'Ofsted no longer makes an
overall judgement' even when showing a carried-forward grade. It's now
grade_source-aware and labels carried-forward grades as such, matching
the compare screen.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
The search-result cards and map pins keyed report-card detection off
ofsted_framework === 'ReportCard', but the API sets ofsted_framework to the
raw event grouping ('Schools - S5'); worse, ofsted_grade (the carried-forward
legacy grade) was checked first and won. So report-card schools were badged
by their old grade — Barclay's pin/card read 'Outstanding · 2021' instead of
'Report Card · 2026'. Same root cause as the detail-page fix, different
surface.
Expose ofsted_rc_date on the list serialization (the report-card inspection
date, non-null only for report cards) and make both badge builders treat a
present rc-date as winning over any grade, using its year. Removes the dead
framework === 'ReportCard' branches.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
SF1 (expert sign-off): the secondary academics 'Grade 5+ in English &
maths' and 'EBacc entry' rows rendered as bare numbers — the one place
the 'every number anchored against the England average' promise broke.
Both now show the official England anchor (already in the payload) + an
Above/Close/Below verdict chip, matching Attainment 8 (which also gains a
chip for consistency).
Button affordance: globals.css has a duplicate .btn block whose
'border: none' overrode the base '1px solid transparent', so
.btn-secondary/.btn-active's 'border-color' had no width — every outline
button (the modal's '+ Compare', search-result '+ Compare', 'Comparing')
rendered as borderless teal text. Give the outline variants the full
'border' shorthand so the outline renders regardless of the clobbered base.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
S1: first-choice chip banded (More than half / About 1 in 3 / Over 1 in 4
missed out) so a 44%-offered grammar isn't understated by half.
S2: Progress 8 explains its absence for 2024/25+ cohorts (no KS2 baseline,
COVID) instead of a bare 'No data'.
S3: KS4 trend charts get their own honest gap caption (2019/20-2020/21
unpublished; later years not in our dataset yet); y-axis 'Value'→'Score';
buildCompareChart exposes englandOnlyYears.
S4: all-through schools labelled in chips, rail caption says 'N schools ·
<phase> view' for mixed baskets, whole-school roll no longer judged
against the single-phase median, community section carries an all-ages
caveat.
S6 (spec §8.5): disadvantaged attainment shows the cohort behind it
('of ~50 disadvantaged pupils').
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
M1: admissions rounds are now selected by the active phase tab
(admissionsForPhase) — an all-through school's Year 7 round no longer
masquerades as Reception odds beside pure primaries; honest per-cell and
section fallbacks name the round (Reception / Year 7).
M2: Ofsted sentinel codes (9 = not applicable) never render as judgement
chips, and the sixth-form judgement — previously dropped — now renders
for schools that have one.
M3: 'What this means' is phase- and type-aware: selective schools get
entrance-test framing, secondary faith schools a faith-criteria note, and
the primaries' distance template never appears on the secondary tab
(admissions_policy now exposed in compare school_info).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
Opening a compare link while localStorage held a different basket raced a
fetch for the OLD school set against the URL's SSR data; the stale
response replaced comparisonData, so no active school had data and every
section (including the trends chart) vanished until a hard refresh.
Responses from superseded effect runs are now dropped, successful ones
merge instead of replace, and the URL-seed effect re-runs when a
client-side navigation changes ?urns=.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
'COMPARING / 3 primary schools' — 0.72rem uppercase eyebrow over a
0.95rem semibold count, sized to sit alongside the 0.92rem chip names
without dominating. Desktop only; mobile pills unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
The grid sections (At a glance, Ofsted, Getting a place, Who goes there)
collapsed generically on mobile — grey label pills, full names wrapping
to 3 lines, no dots — making the page ~2x the mockup's height and
'significantly different' from the mobile design.
Each measure is now wrapped in a <Measure> that is display:contents on
desktop (so the label + cells still flow into the shared aligned grid,
unchanged) and a white card on mobile with compact [dot][short name]
[value] rows — matching the mobile mockup. The sticky school bar becomes
scrollable short-name pills on mobile too. Adds a shortName() util.
Desktop layout is unchanged (display:contents dissolves the wrapper).
Validated the card mechanism and real content shapes (report-card cell,
badges, %+chip rows) via static previews at both widths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
Refresh bug: on mount the basket is empty for a beat before it hydrates
from the URL. The fetch effect nulled comparisonData on that transient
empty urnKey, then the one-shot 'SSR covers it' skip suppressed the
refetch — leaving the page blank on reload. The effect is now gated on
isInitialized, never blanks on empty (the render already shows the empty
state when nothing is selected), and decides fetch-vs-skip by whether it
already holds each requested school's data (SSR or a prior fetch).
Perf: useComparison ran a useSWR('/api/compare') whose result nothing
consumed — dead weight that fired on every page (Navigation + Toast are
global) whenever the basket was non-empty, and duplicated ComparisonView's
own fetch on the compare page. Removed; the hook now exposes basket state
only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
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