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TudorandClaude Opus 5.5 ef4a2ccccb fix(school): send the school page its admissions policy, and read it exactly
The header's Selective flag read school_info.admissions_policy, which the
detail endpoint never sent, so no school page could flag Selective while
its search row did (staging E2E: The Grammar School at Leeds). The detail
payload now carries it, and a contract test checks it carries every field
the header's flags read.

Sending it would have switched on two older copies of the tag logic #176
fixed in the rows. The Admissions section and the cut-off note both tested
includes('selective'), so every non-selective secondary would have read
"entry is by selective examination". The section also counted "None" as a
faith: Burntwood reads "a faith-based admissions priority (None)" today.
All of them now share isSelective() and hasReligiousCharacter(), which also
treats "Not applicable" as no faith, as the place table already does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 23:43:43 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5.5 ca47d08186 feat(school): state the header's facts in one line, and flag what applies
The row of grey chips under the name mixed the council, a GIAS governance
term, the age range and provision, with no labels. Parents could not tell
what "Wandsworth" or "Nursery" meant, and selective, faith and fees were
missing or buried in the details.

The header now prints one fact line (phase pill · ages · type · pupils),
then flags only for what applies, in a fixed order: who can apply or what
it costs (Fee-paying, Selective, Girls'/Boys' school, the religious
character as recorded), then what the school offers (Nursery class, Sixth
form). Flags carry no hue: they are facts, not verdicts. The council joins
the address unless the address already names it. The details keep
headteacher, website, phone, academy trust (hidden when it has the
school's own name) and capacity; county, constituency and religious
character leave the header. The proposed-to-close strip is unchanged.

lib/schoolFacts holds the type label and the flags so the search rows can
print the same words.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 22:59:45 +01:00
Tudor e344298440 Merge branch 'fix/search-row-facts' into feat/header-facts-and-flags 2026-10-02 22:51:35 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5.5 e65c93b68e fix(search): tag only what the register records
The secondary row tested the admissions policy with includes('selective'),
which "Non-selective" passes, so every comprehensive (Burntwood, Graveney)
was tagged Selective. It now needs an exact "Selective".

Both rows excluded only "Does not apply" from the religious character, so a
school recorded as "None" got "Faith priority" (Putney High) or a bare
"None" chip (Abacus Belsize Primary). hasReligiousCharacter() treats both of
the register's no-faith values as no faith.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 22:50:44 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5.5 e3f21a5bc7 fix(school): address review on the header chip fixes
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- E2E: list with page_size (per_page was ignored), fail clearly if the
  gender filter is ignored, and require nursery_provision on the detail
  payload so the Nursery assertion cannot pass vacuously.
- singleSexLabel ignores case, as hasNurseryClasses does.
- Header test: type withSchool with Partial<School>, and match the
  single-sex labels exactly instead of any span ending in "school".

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2026-10-02 22:16:49 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5.5 dea435a906 fix(school): show Nursery only for nursery classes, and say Girls' school
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GIAS NurseryProvision is text ("Has Nursery Classes", "No Nursery
Classes", "Not applicable"), but the header and the place table tested it
for truthiness. Every school with a value got a Nursery chip or a "Yes",
including secondaries aged 11-18. hasNurseryClasses() matches the one
value that means a nursery, and the type now says the field is a string.

The single-sex chip appended 's to the plural GIAS gender, giving
"Girls's school". singleSexLabel() gives "Girls' school" / "Boys' school".

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2026-10-02 22:02:32 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5.5 17bfb4a3f7 feat(search): school type groups and a faith filter
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2026-10-02 11:54:04 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5.5 96deab7d58 fix(search): start postcode searches at half a mile
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New postcode searches, the near-me button and URLs without a radius now
use 0.5 miles. A postcode URL with no radius used to show "1 mile" in the
Distance control while the API applied its own 5-mile default; the page
and the map fetch now send the same default the control displays.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-01 17:40:44 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5.5 1bb3e0360f feat(search): open postcode searches on the map on phones too
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Trial the map as the default for every postcode search, not only on
desktop (DEFAULT_LOCATION_VIEW in HomeView; results_view_changed shows
how often readers switch away). The view is now derived: the reader's
choice once made, else the default for the kind of search. That follows
a hero search through client-side navigation without syncing state.

With nothing left varying by device, the user-agent default goes
(lib/device.ts, the headers() read in page.tsx). That settles two review
points: the HTML no longer needs Vary: User-Agent, and there is no
narrow-window fallback left to flash the map before the list.

Review fix in LeafletMapInner: the card reopened only when the selection
or the school list changed, so a rebuild caused by the centre, reference
point or radius closed it for good while the page still had the school
selected. The selection effect now follows a pins-rebuilt counter.
SchoolMap memoises its fallback centre, which was a fresh array on every
render and would have rebuilt every pin each time.

Phones hide the map view's list pane, so it no longer builds up to 500
hidden cards there (decided after mount, so hydration still matches).

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2026-09-30 21:50:34 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5.5 4e4b30e812 feat(search): align the map view with the mockup and open it on desktop
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The map view now follows option B of the results-controls mockups:

- The list sits in a pane on the left, under the result count and sort,
  and the map fills the rest of the screen below the pinned toolbar. The
  toolbar's height is measured, so the split ends 1rem above the bottom
  of the screen however the controls wrap.
- Pins are brand-teal dots and the selected one is coral. The search
  location is an ink dot, the search radius a dashed circle with its
  distance, and the view fits that circle. Tiles are muted and the zoom
  sits under the fullscreen button.
- A school picked on the map or in the list opens a card on the map
  (View, + Compare, following the basket), and its list card is ringed
  and scrolled into view. Phones keep the bottom sheet.
- The list cards show the full name, Ofsted and school type, the
  headline figure and pupils.

The map cards now follow the list rows: no England benchmark for
special schools, PRUs and AP, and no placeholder all-zero RWM (Greenmead
showed "0% RWM -62 pts vs national"). That rule moves to a shared
listRwmValue helper.

A postcode search opens on the map for desktop browsers, chosen on the
server from the user agent so the list never paints first. The client
falls back to the list below 1024px, and follows the default through
client-side navigation from the hero until the reader picks a view.

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2026-09-30 21:30:33 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5.5 983a581555 feat(search): pin the results toolbar and float the map button on phones
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The List/Map switch was a small grey control beside the results heading,
and the filters were plain dropdowns labelled "All Phases" and "Advanced".
Both scrolled away with the first result.

Search, filters and the List/Map switch now share one card pinned under
the header. Distance, phase and school type are pill controls in the row;
"Advanced" becomes "More filters" and counts only what it hides. The
switch is filled brand teal and says which view is on (aria-pressed).

On phones the search folds to a one-line summary once made, the filter
pills scroll sideways, and a floating Map/List button sits above the tab
bar in place of the toolbar switch. The selected pin's card now stacks
under that button instead of covering the tab bar.

Switching view from far down the list scrolls back to the top of the
results, and each switch is tracked as results_view_changed.

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2026-09-30 18:35:37 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5.5 587cfe3f0b fix(compare): give every basket entry a real phase
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Review of the per-phase limit found entries reaching the basket with no
phase, and a phase-less entry holds a slot in both groups:

- Nearby-school cards added without one. The API now returns each
  peer's own phase (its pool is a phase group, so an all-through school
  can sit beside a primary); the button passes it through, and an older
  API simply leaves the conservative both-groups count in place.
- Baskets saved before this change were never migrated. The compare
  page now backfills missing phases from the data it already fetches,
  and never overwrites a phase the basket has.
- "16 plus" counted against both groups; it is secondary, as the API's
  PHASE_GROUPS files it.

Also rewraps the HomeView doc comment the previous commit left awkward.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 12:04:39 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5.5 0a4c051ee5 feat(compare): limit the basket to five per phase, not five overall
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A parent choosing a primary and a secondary school at once hit the old
cap of five total. The basket now holds up to five primary and five
secondary schools (ten in all), matching the compare page's phase tabs.

Schools that could land in either tab (all-through, special schools with
phase "Not applicable", unknown phase) count against both groups, so no
tab ever exceeds the five-slot chart palette and point styles.

- lib/compareLogic: compareGroups, fullGroupFor, fitToGroupLimits
- search modal disables only the full group and says which one
- rankings rows carry the phase of the tab they are ranked under
- shared ?urns= links are trimmed per group
- copy: compare metadata, homepage value prop, How it works card now
  name primary and secondary schools (also better for search intent)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 11:56:54 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5.5 d1688ac150 copy(web): replace em dashes in public copy
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Rewrites every visitor-facing string that used an em dash, choosing the
punctuation for what the dash was doing: a colon before a list or
explanation, a comma for an aside, a full stop between two thoughts,
parentheses for an aside mid-sentence. Covers page titles and meta
descriptions, the home and admissions guide copy, school page headings
and notes, the compare page, metric labels and tooltips.

Two rewrites also fix the sentence around them: the closure banner no
longer repeats "proposed for closure", and the cut-off caveat's list of
priorities now parses.

A lone dash marking a missing value in a table cell stays: it is a data
convention, not prose. A Jest guard walks the source with the TypeScript
parser and fails on any other em dash in a string or JSX text node.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 22:04:27 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 cd6a45bf7d refactor: rename similar → nearby, so the code says what the section does
The section ranks on distance and is headed "Other schools nearby", but every
identifier still called it "similar" — the exact drift that leaves a later
reader trusting a name over the behaviour.

Mechanical: files, the module, the payload key, the type, the components, the
prop. No behaviour change; the suites are unchanged in count and still green.
Free to do now because #150 has not merged, so the payload key rename needs no
lockstep deploy. Uses of "similar" that are ordinary English — progress
measures compared to similar pupils, and unrelated comments — are untouched.

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2026-09-22 13:06:32 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 5c0ccc693d 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.

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2026-09-22 13:06:32 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 4e0d8bcf87 feat(web): render similar schools on both detail templates
Inside SchoolDetailShell rather than after it, because the sticky nav's
scroll-spy finds sections with getElementById and can only reach one that
lives in the shell. Last in the order, and last in the nav, because the two
must agree or the nav links to an anchor that was never rendered.

hasSimilarSchools is optional on NavItemsInput, matching hasLocation beside
it: absent has to mean "no section", and making it required would have
churned ten unrelated call sites for no added safety.

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2026-09-21 22:42:59 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 91314a80b5 feat(web): similar schools section, honest about what it matched
Server-rendered cards inside a client carousel that scrolls rather than
paginates, so all six links stay in the initial HTML and the row still works
with JavaScript off. Three client islands, split by what each needs: a school,
the whole selection, a DOM ref.

The lede claims a similar intake only when no card came from tier 3, chips
list what a school actually shares, a missing figure reads "Not published",
and the neighbour's number carries no valence colour — green and terracotta
mean "against England" everywhere else, and colouring it here would read as
ranking the neighbours.

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2026-09-21 22:41:40 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 7b41218e6e fix(web): show an outage as an outage, and drop superseded fetches
The home page caught every fetch failure and rendered its empty state,
so a backend outage looked like a site with no schools in it. School
pages turned any error into notFound(), which told visitors — and
crawlers — that a real school had ceased to exist. Place fetches did the
same by returning [] and null. Failures now reach a retryable error
boundary; only a genuine 404 still calls notFound().

"Load more" and the map fetch resolved against whatever state existed
when they returned, so results from an abandoned search appended
themselves to the new ones. Each fetch now carries an AbortController
and checks that its search scope is still current before touching state.
The map only records its cache key on success, so a failed load retries
instead of pinning the stale marker set.

Jest ignored .next/, whose build output otherwise shadowed real suites.

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2026-09-15 10:17:18 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 1d8858fbda chore: remove the code the legacy CSV importer left behind
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`backend/migration.py` and `scripts/migrate_csv_to_db.py` import `School`,
`SchoolResult`, `init_db` and `set_db_schema_version` — names that no longer
exist. `scripts/geocode_schools.py` imports the same removed ORM model. None of
the three can be imported against the current backend, so they were not dormant
utilities anyone could fall back on; they were files that would fail on the
first line. `backend/version.py` existed only to hand `SCHEMA_VERSION` to that
importer, and the FastAPI lifespan performs no version-triggered import.

Three symbols go with them, each confirmed to have no caller: the unvectorised
`haversine_distance`, superseded by the inline NumPy calculation in search;
`fetcher`, an SWR helper for a dependency this project does not install; and
`kmToMiles`. `calculateDistance` stays — CutoffMapPanel uses it.

Two comments pointed at `migrate_csv_to_db.py --drop` to explain why Payload
owns its own schema. The reason survives the script: blog content must stay
clear of the school marts and Airflow's metadata. Reworded rather than deleted,
so the constraint keeps its justification.

docs/LEGACY_CODE.md records what was removed and where to find it in history. It
also records what was deliberately *not* removed, which is the more useful half:
unused UI components awaiting a design decision, manual data utilities whose
operators a repository search cannot see, and fallbacks that look obsolete but
are load-bearing — `data_loader.py`'s older-mart branches, the generated GIAS
dictionary copies, and the `legacy`-named dbt models that annual DAG selectors
explicitly include. A zero-import count is evidence, not a verdict.

The scripts that fetch DfE CSVs are marked historical and kept, pending
confirmation that nobody runs them by hand.

Checked: 190 backend tests, 429 frontend tests, `tsc --noEmit` clean.

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2026-09-14 23:01:22 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 d65eb58883 fix(seo): build the phase links the docstring already promised
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Review caught _places_payload documenting a `phase_url` the function
never returned. The docstring was not stray prose: the approved design
included the phase variant — "Primary schools in Beccles" was one of
its four example links — and it was dropped during implementation
without being mentioned. Deleting the sentence would have closed the
report while losing the feature, so the links are built instead.

These are the pages that most needed them. ~950 phase variants were
once reachable by nothing at all: absent from every sitemap and
unlinked from the place page. "Primary schools in brentwood" is the
query they exist to answer.

Membership is read from the registry's own `phase_urns` rather than
re-derived from the school's phase string. The registry already decides
which phases a place publishes and which schools are listed on each, so
asking it is both shorter and the only way the link cannot disagree
with the page it points at. It also means outcodes need no special
case: they carry empty `phase_urns` by design, because nobody searches
"primary schools in SW11", so they report no phase links on their own.

`phases` is a list rather than a single url. An all-through school is
listed on both the primary and secondary pages, so there is no tie to
break and no reason to invent one. Each entry renders directly after
its own place, so "22 primary schools in Brentwood" reads as part of
Brentwood rather than as an unrelated link further along the row.

The e2e journey now follows a phase link where the town publishes one
and asserts it resolves.

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TudorandClaude Opus 5 7f5f0fb676 feat(seo): link school pages into the location layer
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W2 shipped ~5,000 place pages and nothing linked into them. The
location layer pointed down at school pages; school pages pointed
nowhere on the site. Their only anchor was the school's own website, so
the ~27k pages carrying most of the site's inbound authority passed it
straight off-site, and the new corpus was reachable mainly through the
sitemap.

Three things close the loop.

A reverse index over the place registry, places_for_urn, answers which
published places contain a school. Derived from the registry rather
than stored beside it, so the two cannot disagree about which places
exist: a place below the publish threshold is absent from the registry
and therefore never offered as a link. A test asserts that invariant
across every place in a built registry.

GET /api/schools/{urn} gains a `places` array carrying the name, count
and canonical path for each. It rides on the request the page already
makes, so the school page costs no extra round trip. The frontend types
it optional and defaults it to empty, because the two images deploy
separately and a frontend ahead of the API must render without it.

The page gains a "More schools near here" module and a BreadcrumbList.
The module orders narrowest first, because a reader on a school page
wants its town before its county, while the API orders widest first for
the trail. Anchors state their destination's size — "37 schools in
Brentwood" — which is worth more to a reader and a crawler than "see
more". With no published places it renders nothing rather than an empty
heading.

The trail is rooted at the homepage, not /schools. There is no /schools
index page; the location layer lives only at /schools/[place],
/schools/authority/[la] and /schools/near/[outcode]. Rooting it at the
bare path would have opened every breadcrumb with a link to a 404.
Outcodes are omitted from the trail: "schools near CM15" is a real
query and a useful link, but nobody navigates Essex to CM15 to a
school, and a breadcrumb claiming that describes a hierarchy the site
does not have.

School pages also now declare the School type rather than
EducationalOrganization, the parent type that covers universities and
nurseries alike.

The e2e journey asserts the round trip in both directions, following a
place page's own first school so the pair is genuinely related rather
than hardcoded. A one-way link is what already existed.

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TudorandClaude Opus 5 6fc7fce948 feat(flags): put /about and /blog behind flags, dark by default
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Both features ship dark. Neither is reachable in an environment where
its flag is off, and every flag in this system starts off, so a deploy
of this commit makes both disappear until someone turns them on
deliberately.

Two independent flags rather than one, which makes blog-on-about-off a
reachable state. That state is the whole reason the change is larger
than four notFound() calls: the blog leans on the About page for its
author identity. The Person entity is anchored at /about#tudor, and
that URL 404s while about_page is dark, so a post published in that
state would claim an author resolving to nothing. Worse than having no
named author. Both bylines fall back to unlinked text and the
BlogPosting attributes to the publisher instead, so every combination
of the two flags renders something correct.

Gated: /about, /blog, /blog/[slug], the RSS feed, both footer links,
and the matching content-sitemap entries. A sitemap must never
advertise a URL that 404s. With both dark it emits a valid empty
urlset rather than a 404, because robots.txt names it unconditionally.

Not gated: /admin. Posts have to be writable before the blog is worth
switching on, so flagging the panel would make the flag unflippable.

getFlags takes a revalidate rather than always using the 300s
constant. Reading a flag pins the calling route to the lowest
revalidate among its fetches, and the footer links live in the root
layout, so a naive gate there would have dropped every school and
place page from a weekly cache to a 5-minute one. The layout passes
604800, the floor those routes already declare, and the build confirms
all four SSG route families still prerender. The cost is one-way
latency: pages follow a flip in minutes, footer links within a week.

The e2e journeys follow the existing paired shape from the
admission_distance flag: a lit journey and a dark one for each flag,
reading state from whether /about and /blog respond rather than from
/api/flags, which another journey asserts is not publicly reachable.

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TudorandClaude Opus 5 b793640507 feat(blog): add the blog index, post pages, RSS and content sitemap
The rendering split is dictated by CI building with no database.

/blog, /blog/rss.xml and /content-sitemap.xml have no dynamic params, so
Next prerenders them at build time and the build fails on a missing
Payload secret — caught here, not on staging. They are force-dynamic
instead: one indexed query against Postgres on the same Docker network,
and a newly published post appears immediately rather than waiting on a
revalidation. /blog/[slug] keeps ISR, because with no
generateStaticParams there is nothing to prerender; it is generated on
first request and cached, which is exactly what the collection's
afterChange hook exists to invalidate.

RichText takes `converters`, not `blocks`, in Payload 3.88, and the
default converters must be spread or every paragraph and heading loses
its renderer and the body comes out empty.

BlogPosting references the Person and Organization by @id rather than
repeating them, so every post and the About page resolve to one author
entity instead of declaring several people with the same name.

/sitemap.xml is proxied from FastAPI, which knows nothing about Payload,
so the Next-owned URLs get their own sitemap and robots.txt lists both.

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TudorandClaude Opus 5 f614414070 feat(about): give the site a named author
The site had no author, no statement of why it exists and nobody
accountable for its numbers, which is most of why it reads as machine
generated.

The page states plainly that its author is not an education expert. The
credibility claim is lived experience — a parent going through primary
admissions — plus stated provenance for every figure, which is true and
cannot be undermined by someone noticing there is no teaching
qualification behind it. First name only: the Person JSON-LD carries no
familyName, worksFor or affiliation, and a test asserts it stays that
way.

The footer gains a fourth column, with a tablet breakpoint so four
columns pair up rather than crushing before the 768px collapse. The nav
is deliberately untouched — its mobile tab bar already carries four
items.

public/brand/tudor.jpg is NOT in this commit. The page references it and
will show a broken image until the photograph is supplied; a stock
portrait would defeat the entire point of the work.

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TudorandClaude Opus 5 c5a4d106da feat(cms): install Payload and serve the admin panel
Payload 3.88 runs inside the Next app against the existing Postgres, in
its own 'payload' schema so no pipeline operation on public — the app
tables, Airflow's metadata, migrate_csv_to_db.py --drop — can reach blog
content.

Its REST API is mounted at /cms-api. /api is the FastAPI proxy's
catch-all, which would swallow every admin call and forward it to the
backend with no error. The mount points live in lib/payloadRoutes.ts so
there is one definition and a test can assert it without importing
Payload: it is ESM-only, next/jest will not transform it, and appending
transformIgnorePatterns cannot un-ignore a package. Forcing it through
transpilePackages would change how the production build bundles Payload
to serve a test, so the live proof that /api still reaches FastAPI stays
where it belongs — the e2e journeys, which call /api/schools.

The package becomes ESM ("type": "module"), which Payload's CLI requires:
richtext-lexical has top-level await and the config cannot be require()d.
Only two files needed renaming, jest.config.cjs and a build script.

The build is verified to succeed with DATABASE_URL and PAYLOAD_SECRET
both unset, which is how CI builds it.

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2026-09-02 16:17:01 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 102397fe69 fix(destinations): withhold at the API, not just in the chart
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Code review found the disclosure the whole design was meant to prevent.
R1 was written as a rendering rule and implemented as one: canRenderBar
stopped the bar being drawn, but GET /api/schools/{urn} still carried the
cohort and every published category. cohort - sum(published) returned
Whitley Bay's withheld further-education figure exactly — 18 pupils — to
any caller, and the RSC payload put it in the browser too.

app.py already stated the principle for admission_distance: this endpoint
is public and unauthenticated, so a field left in the payload is a
published field. The same reasoning applies here and did not get applied.

_mask_for_disclosure now closes both identities before serialisation —
categories sum to the cohort, and disadvantaged + other = all — by adding
secondary suppression until every row and column hides none or at least
two. My first attempt picked the smallest published cell as the companion
and a new test caught it choosing a zero, which protects nothing: the
residual still resolved to 18. The companion must carry pupils.

DfE's own aggregates are no longer served. Nothing rendered them, and one
spanning a single suppressed component names it.

Cost, measured over 262 mainstream secondaries: the all-pupils bar
survives on 94% rather than 100%. Zero lone-suppressed groups remain.

The e2e helper now tells a missing feature apart from missing data: it
fails if the API serves no destinations key at all, and skips if the key
is served but the annual DAG has not populated the marts. Failing on the
second would redden the staging gate for unrelated commits.

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Tudor 68a192e430 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into feat/ks4-destinations
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# Conflicts:
#	nextjs-app/__tests__/components/darkThemeSafety.test.ts
2026-08-28 18:45:27 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 cef2f77149 feat(destinations): the After Year 11 section
Question cards over one bar, with the cards acting as a lens on the bar
rather than a summary beside it — focusing a card dims everything it is
not made of, so the grouping we chose is inspectable rather than asserted.

The bar renders only when canRenderBar allows it. Where a category is
withheld the section says so and shows the table instead: the categories
sum to the cohort, so a bar drawn from the published segments leaves a
gap whose width is the withheld figure.

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2026-08-28 16:14:13 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 68b6417149 feat(destinations): types and secondary section flags
Destinations are secondary-only, so the flags go on computeSecondaryFlags
rather than computeSchoolFlags. A phase counts as present only when some
pupil group carries categories — an empty block would otherwise open a nav
entry pointing at a section that never renders.

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2026-08-28 16:11:37 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 1980d79eee feat(destinations): the disclosure rules, as executable guards
The destination categories sum to the cohort and DfE publishes the cohort
total, so a lone suppressed cell is recoverable by subtraction. canAggregate,
canRenderPublishedAggregate and canRenderBar are what stop a consumer doing
that; toBarSegments throws rather than leaving a readable gap.

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2026-08-28 15:57:46 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 e820e7fecd fix(analytics): the funnel source read a referrer that never changes
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The staging E2E gate has been red since #132 merged (run 1064, and
1066 after it): "a school reached from a location page is attributed
to it, not to direct" expects `place`, receives `direct`.

#132 fixed a real bug — `/schools/` had no case and fell through to
`direct` — but the mechanism underneath it never worked.
getNavigationSource read document.referrer, which the browser writes
only when a *document* loads. Every internal navigation here is an App
Router soft navigation: history.pushState, no new document, so
document.referrer goes on naming whatever opened the tab for the whole
session.

Verified on staging: load /schools/brentwood, click a school, the URL
becomes /school/… and document.referrer is still "".

So `from` reported `direct` for essentially every in-app journey, not
just the ones through the location layer — search, rankings, compare
and detail were all being counted as "typed the URL". The unit suite
passed throughout because every case set document.referrer directly,
which only happens on a full page load.

The fix is a module-level trail written by RouteTrail, a render-nothing
client component in the root layout. Its lifetime is exactly right: it
survives soft navigation, and it dies on a real document load — which
is precisely when document.referrer becomes meaningful again, so the
two cover each other with no overlap.

Reading it skips entries equal to the current path rather than taking
the second-to-last. That makes the answer independent of whether the
layout effect or the page effect ran first — React orders those by
tree position, which is not a contract worth resting a measurement on
— and it gives the right answer both when the user returns to a page
they came from and on a hard load of a school page.

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2026-08-27 09:22:37 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 9a1f56c431 feat(places): say what each school is, not only how it scored
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The location tables carried one column: a percentage. A parent
shortlisting from a town page is asking a different question first —
does it take my child's age, is it a faith school, does it have a
nursery — and the page could not answer any of it.

Primary tables gain Ages, Religious character, Nursery and
Constituency; secondary tables the same minus Nursery, which is a
question about a different intake. An all-through school renders in
both groups, so its nursery shows under primary alone.

The measure moves to the second column rather than the last. Six
columns overflow a phone and .tableWrap turns that into a horizontal
swipe; with the measure last, the one number the page exists for is
the one scrolled off the screen.

Cell rules are the ones the school page already uses, so the two
surfaces cannot disagree about the same school: "Does not apply",
"None" and "Not applicable" all read as no religious character, and
the en-dash age normalisation moves into formatAgeSpan, which
formatAgeRange now delegates to.

Backend: nursery_provision and parliamentary_constituency were not in
the place response. Both are optional GIAS mart columns that
data_loader degrades to NULL, and the `in rows.columns` guard keeps a
mart the pipeline has not rebuilt working.

Also fixes a live bug on the same line: SCHOOL_COLUMNS already ends
with latitude and longitude, and the endpoint concatenated them again,
so pandas dropped one of every duplicated pair and warned "columns are
not unique" on each request. Ordered de-duplication removes the
warning and the silent drop.

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2026-08-27 08:49:14 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 d1a8596208 feat(analytics): measure the location layer, and stop calling it direct
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The location pages were only half-tracked. Umami counts a pageview for
each of the ~3,900 URLs automatically, but nothing else: components/
places contained no track() call, and place_viewed was not even a
declared event name.

The part that mattered was worse than a gap. getNavigationSource mapped
a same-origin referrer to a funnel source and had no case for /schools/,
so every school view arriving through the location layer fell through to
'direct' — the bucket you read as "typed the URL, no referrer". W2's
whole purpose is funnelling search traffic onto school pages, so the one
measurement that says whether it worked was reporting the wrong answer,
and reporting it confidently. Verified live against staging: expected
"place", received "direct".

/schools/ is checked before /school/. They differ by one letter and mean
different things — the location layer versus a single school — and a
prefix test in the wrong order silently merges them.

place_viewed carries kind, slug, phase and school_count. kind is the
reason it exists: whether to keep investing in these pages turns on
which sort earns engagement, and a pageview cannot say, because all four
families share the /schools/ prefix and only the registry knows which is
which. It is a client component because PlaceView is a server component;
one line in PlaceView covers all four families, since they all render
through it.

Both E2E journeys were verified failing against staging first — one
because place_viewed does not exist there, the other on the exact
"place" vs "direct" mismatch.

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2026-08-27 08:23:21 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 06eb433db5 feat(suggest): debounced, abortable suggestion hook
The AbortController is correctness, not economy. Without it a slow
response for 'st' can land after the fast one for 'st marys' and replace
a correct list with a stale one — the classic autosuggest race.

No cache: 'no-store', unlike the compare modal's search. This is the one
endpoint where prefix queries repeat most across users, so discarding
the browser cache and the backend's ETag 304s would be throwing away the
cheapest win available.

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2026-08-26 20:35:27 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 c3ba7aae0d feat(flags): ship last-distance-offered dark behind a flag
One gate, at the source. The frontend needs no change: DistanceSection
already returns null when distance_m is missing, and the admissions
block already conditions on (admissions || admissionDistance). Only 57
local authorities publish cut-offs, so the off-path is the commonest
path on the site and is well covered already.

Absent, not null. /api/schools/ is public and unauthenticated, so a
field left in the payload is a published field — the reasoning already
recorded in c9a1892 when history was withheld. The two are also
different claims: null says this school has no cut-off, absent says
cut-offs are not being published at all. The frontend type now says so.

The feature is on main and live on staging and has never reached
production, which is what makes it the right first consumer: the flag
lets the code promote without the feature appearing.

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2026-08-23 10:56:33 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 54a30de0d8 feat(flags): server-side getFlags for the frontend
Ships without a consumer, deliberately. The first flag needs none — the
backend withholds the field and the page follows — but 'UI elements on
existing pages' is one of the three surfaces this capability exists for,
and a flag layer that cannot gate one is incomplete.

Never throws: an unreadable flag is a dark one, which matches the
backend's fail-closed default. A page that 500s because the flags
endpoint blinked would be a worse outcome than a hidden feature.

Reading flags pins the calling route to a 300s ISR floor, since Next
takes the lowest revalidate among a route's fetches. That matches what
/school/[slug] already sits at, and it is the same property that makes a
flip propagate without a webhook.

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2026-08-23 10:55:32 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 d1358cc00f fix(places): phase links must stay in their own namespace
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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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2026-08-22 17:22:11 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 1cb5314c53 feat(places): name every authority a place sits in
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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2026-08-21 22:40:58 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 6f749ed21f fix(places): submit and link the phase variants
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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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2026-08-21 20:43:07 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 de5e790112 feat(places): place page client and view component
One component for all four families: they differ in what fills the registry,
not in what the page shows, so a second would be a second place to forget the
same change.

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2026-08-21 18:15:10 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 2208ad93c1 feat(seo): split the sitemap into a per-family index
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Search Console reports coverage per submitted sitemap, so one file per page
family is what will make W2's location pages measurable when they land. The
index's lastmod is generation time, which is the correct semantic there —
unlike on a <url>, where it would be a claim we cannot support.

Children sit under /sitemaps/ because Next only treats a whole bracketed path
segment as dynamic; a route folder named sitemap-[...parts] would be read as a
literal static segment and never match. Confirmed by the build output, which
lists /sitemaps/[...parts] as a dynamic route.

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TudorandClaude Opus 5 5ddc7314fd fix(seo): canonicalise on the www host, which is the one that serves 200
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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TudorandClaude Opus 5 ea5249a2ea fix(admissions): state distance in miles throughout, never mixed
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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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2026-08-20 20:35:05 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 c9a1892bfb feat(admissions): publish the latest cut-off only, holding history back
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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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2026-08-20 18:44:57 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 94151c58ea fix(admissions): move the cut-off detail into its own section
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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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2026-08-20 14:54:02 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 a72323874f feat(admissions): add the cut-off history, map and postcode check
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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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2026-08-16 13:42:06 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 88c653215d feat(admissions): show the last distance offered where councils publish it
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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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2026-08-15 22:48:30 +01:00
TudorandClaude Opus 5 dc22fd2853 fix(home): correct what the landing page claims, and give it one rhythm
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The homepage made four statements that were not true, carried elements that
asked nothing of anyone, and had a hero illustration that broke in both the
places it had to work.

Claims, all verified against the code or the API:

  * "24,000+ schools" (three places) against a real 27,230. The fact box meant
    to show the live figure rendered its own fallback on every request, because
    DataInfoResponse declared a `total_schools` field the API has never sent —
    it sends `unique_schools`. The fetch succeeded; only that field was
    undefined, so nothing threw and nothing failed. The interface, not the
    code, was the thing that was wrong.
  * "Up to three schools side by side" against MAX_SCHOOLS = 5, contradicting a
    card 400px below it that correctly said five.
  * "Class sizes" — data the codebase has never held. That copy line was the
    only hit in a full-repo grep.
  * Invented results and Ofsted grades attributed to two real, named schools
    in the compare preview.

Also one feature, three words: Compare (nav), shortlist (footer), pin (cards).
Settled on Compare everywhere. And <title> was the bare string "Home".

Cut: the trust line (repeated the coverage figure one paragraph after the hero
gave it, behind three decorative dots), the "Start exploring" row (three links
to two destinations already in the nav), the six-row coverage table, and three
of the four countdown cards — which gave the page's largest numeral to dates up
to 245 days away, two of them offer days, which cannot be missed. All four
dates remain, at proportionate weight. Value-prop titles drop from <h2> to <p>;
they were outranking the page's real headings in the document outline.

Rhythm: the gaps between the seven landing bands were 24/32/24/16/48/32/16px,
each band setting its own margin, with four different section-header
treatments between them. The page container now owns one gap, and there is one
header pattern. An e2e test asserts the gaps are identical.

Illustration: it kept a fixed light palette in both themes, which left a pale
sky slab as the brightest object on a near-black page, out-shouting the H1 and
the search box. It now reads from --ill-* tokens with a dark re-grade. And the
hero slot ranges from 1.34:1 to 4.9:1 across breakpoints, which no single
composition survives under `slice` — at 860x176 a 540x520 scene shows only its
bottom 110 units, so the schoolhouse was cropped away entirely on phones,
leaving hills and a pin pointing at nothing. There are now two compositions,
each drawn against the crop window its own breakpoint produces, with CSS
showing one. Both are static server-rendered SVG.

The deadline bar renders on the server rather than on hydrate. The effect-based
version needed a reserved height, and one guessed number cannot cover a block
whose supporting line wraps differently at every width — measured, it was short
at all four, shifting the page up to 108px on a phone.

Verified on the built output through an offline render harness (no local
server): real compiled CSS, real rendered markup, four widths, both themes.
tsc clean, 159/159 unit tests, build green.

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2026-08-14 17:29:47 +01:00
Tudor accc562b90 feat(brand): adopt the schoolcompare identity across the site
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Implements the supplied brand guideline: the pin-and-leaf mark, the lowercase
schoolcompare wordmark, Manrope for headings and Inter for everything a person
reads a number from, the deep-teal/coral/mustard/sage palette, and the rounder
geometry the guideline asks for.

The landing hero is rebuilt to the concept: a Sand panel carrying the
proposition, the search and a trust line, with the brand landscape bleeding to
the panel's right edge, followed by the four value props.

Concept vs reality — where the guideline describes something this product does
not have, the real feature takes its place and the decision is recorded in a
code comment next to it:

- The Thriving Score is not implemented. Four of its five sub-scores (pastoral,
  enrichment, community, facilities) have no source in DfE or Ofsted data, and
  its band names are Ofsted's own, which would sit beside the real Ofsted grade
  and be indistinguishable from it.
- Guides, About, Favourites and Sign in are not added to the nav — there are no
  such pages and no accounts system. Rankings and Admissions, which the
  guideline omits, keep their places because they exist.
- The fourth value prop is "Never miss a deadline" rather than "Save & revisit",
  which would need shortlisting.

Two deviations from the supplied swatches, both forced by contrast and both
confined to text and fills. Coral #F97360 under a white label measures 2.75:1
against a 4.5 floor, so --action is a darkened #BE3C27 and the original coral
survives as --coral for tints, borders and illustration. Mustard #F2C94C is
1.5:1 as text, so --mustard-ink carries labels while --mustard stays exact for
fills and rings. Every token clears AA on all three light grounds; Sand is the
binding one, so several values sit a step darker than white alone would need.

The guideline is light-only, but the site already ships a dark theme, so it is
rebuilt from the same tokens rather than dropped.

Verified: tsc clean, 159/159 unit tests, production build green, and the
generated share card and app icon render from the new mark. The hero and the
site chrome were rendered from the compiled CSS and the prerendered markup to
confirm Manrope and Inter actually resolve — a font token that silently falls
back has shipped here before.
2026-08-07 18:05:49 +01:00