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TudorandClaude Opus 5	ea5249a2ea	fix(admissions): state distance in miles throughout, never mixed ... 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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WDvkyqqHABm4bmth2kjAxE	2026-08-20 20:35:05 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5	c9a1892bfb	feat(admissions): publish the latest cut-off only, holding history back ... 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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WDvkyqqHABm4bmth2kjAxE	2026-08-20 18:44:57 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5	a72323874f	feat(admissions): add the cut-off history, map and postcode check ... 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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WDvkyqqHABm4bmth2kjAxE	2026-08-16 13:42:06 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5	88c653215d	feat(admissions): show the last distance offered where councils publish it ... 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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WDvkyqqHABm4bmth2kjAxE	2026-08-15 22:48:30 +01:00