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
The link repeated the full school name ('Watford Grammar School for Boys's
Ofsted page') — long on mobile, and the colour-coded school name already
leads the row. Show just 'Ofsted page →'; keep the full name in aria-label
so screen readers can still tell the per-school links apart.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
The colour-coded school name that leads each row in a mobile measure card
was 0.8rem — a touch small to scan which school a value belongs to. Bump
to 0.9rem (with a matching 10px dot) so it's easier to read. Mobile only;
desktop uses the column header and hides this label.
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
The chart note (and the 2-row mobile chip legend) lived inside the fixed
360px/420px chartBox and competed with the canvas for it, so a longer
caption — e.g. the new KS4 gap note — shrank the mobile canvas to ~178px
and tripped the e2e >220px guard. The canvas now owns a definite height
(280px mobile / 380px desktop) with chips above and the note flowing
below at natural size, so neither can eat the plot. Verified on staging:
patched canvas renders 280px vs the squashed 178px.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
Review findings: (1) the 'no KS2 baseline (COVID)' explanation was derived
from the basket-wide max year, so a school with an unrelated data gap
borrowed it from a neighbour with 2024/25 data — now judged per school on
its own latest year. (2) The '~N disadvantaged pupils' cohort multiplied
eligible_pupils and disadvantaged_pct resolved independently across years
— now both come from the same yearly row that supplies the displayed
percentage.
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
The FSM chip anchored against disadvantaged_pct (a different measure,
FSM6+CLA) whenever fsm_pct was null — which it always was, since the
performance df has no fsm_pct. New fact_census_benchmarks mart supplies
pupil-weighted FSM/EAL means per phase; the KS2-column medians that
produced a bogus 50% 'secondary disadvantaged' anchor are gone.
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
The mockup's Explore trends section is the measure picker + chart only —
no data table. Removes the table (and the now-unused progressBand / band
chip / formatMetricValue plumbing that only fed it).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
ComparisonChart runs Chart.js with maintainAspectRatio:false, so it sizes
to its container's height — which must be definite. TrendsExplorer gave
.chartBox a min-height, which doesn't resolve the chart wrapper's
height:100%, so Chart.js fell back to its ~150px default: a squashed
8.6:1 sliver that didn't match the mockups. Set a definite height (420px
desktop, 360px mobile where the chips row sits above the canvas).
Verified on staging by patching the live height: canvas went from
1287x150 to 1287x392 (desktop) / 284 (mobile) — proper ~3:1 proportions
matching the mockup, with the England dashed line, COVID/2021-22 gap and
table all reading correctly.
An e2e guard asserts the trends canvas is taller than 220px so the
squash can't regress.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0146VHeLAWjDVE2B5uU67jCB
