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 It may be unpublished; it may be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 Unpublished years count as unknown, never as a pass.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
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
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).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
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
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
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
Amber tag in listing rows (option A) and a slim notice strip under the
detail-page header (option E): proposed for closure, formal process not
necessarily started, check with the local authority before applying.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- pr-checks.yml: PR gate — frontend typecheck+jest, backend import smoke,
image builds (no push), Claude AI review posted as PR comment (severe
findings block merge)
- deploy.yml (replaces build-and-push.yml): merge to main builds+pushes
images tagged sha-<sha>/staging, deploys the staging Portainer stack via
webhook, runs Playwright E2E journeys against staging, then retags the
verified images :prod (previous kept as :prod-previous) and deploys prod
- docker-compose.portainer.staging.yml: second Portainer stack — :staging
images, sc_staging_* names, own macvlan IPs, Airflow on 8081; data
bootstrapped from source via the staging Airflow DAGs
- prod compose now pins :prod instead of :latest (only the promotion step
moves it; :latest is no longer published)
- e2e/: 6 Playwright journeys (search, postcode, detail, compare, rankings)
driven by BASE_URL — the promotion gate
- scripts/ci/ai_review.py: Claude review with structured JSON findings
- docs/DEPLOY.md: full SDLC doc incl. one-time setup checklist and rollback
- replaced removed 'next lint' with tsc typecheck; fixed stale jest tests
(slug URLs, N/A formatting, stable trend, fake-timer setup)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PqGhF93UrpDNvXBLMjJENL
- Hide empty state placeholder on initial load
- Add prominent hero mode to FilterBar when no search is active
- Fix SchoolCard test TypeScript and assertion errors
- Migrate from vanilla JavaScript SPA to Next.js 16 with App Router
- Add server-side rendering for all pages (Home, Compare, Rankings)
- Create individual school pages with dynamic routing (/school/[urn])
- Implement Chart.js and Leaflet map integrations
- Add comprehensive SEO with sitemap, robots.txt, and JSON-LD
- Set up Docker multi-service architecture (PostgreSQL, FastAPI, Next.js)
- Update CI/CD pipeline to build both backend and frontend images
- Fix Dockerfile to include devDependencies for TypeScript compilation
- Add Jest testing configuration
- Implement performance optimizations (code splitting, caching)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
