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
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.
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Replace the faint middot separators on the characteristics line with
subtle borderless "quiet chips" so each attribute (type, age, faith,
gender) is its own scannable unit. Keep the coloured phase pill as the
one accent, and align every chip — including phase and provision tags —
to a single size/weight/radius (0.75rem / 600 / 4px).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The bare "3-11" range gave no unit. Add a display-only formatAgeRange
helper ("3-11" -> "Ages 3–11", en-dash) used in the primary/secondary
search rows and the secondary detail badge. The raw age_range field is
left untouched so sixth-form detection (.includes('18')) still works.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add coloured left-border and phase label pill to visually differentiate
school phases (Primary, Secondary, All-through, Post-16, Nursery) in
search result lists. Colours are accessible (WCAG AA) and don't clash
with existing Ofsted/trend semantic colours.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- URLs now /school/138267-school-name instead of /school/138267
- Bare URN URLs redirect to canonical slug (backward compat)
- Remove overflow-x:hidden that broke sticky tab nav on secondary pages
- ComparisonToast starts collapsed — user must click to open
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1. Simpler home page: only search box on landing, no filter dropdowns
2. Advanced filters: hidden behind toggle on results page, auto-open if active
3. Per-school phase rendering: each row renders based on its own data
4. Taller 4-line rows with context line (type, age range, denomination, gender)
5. Result-scoped filters: dropdown values reflect current search results
6. Fix blank filter values: exclude empty strings and "Not applicable"
7. Rankings: Primary/Secondary phase tabs with phase-specific metrics
8. Compare: Primary/Secondary tabs with school counts and phase metrics
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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