GIAS ships the whole UK plus overseas and offshore establishments. None of
them carry comparable DfE performance data — Wales does not publish on the
English measures at all — so every one of these pages rendered with null
results, null Ofsted and null phase. There were 2,036 of them: 1,569 Welsh,
123 offshore (Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Gibraltar), 316 British schools
overseas and 28 service children's schools. All 2,036 were being submitted to
search engines, alongside 29 local authorities that existed in the filters
purely to list them.
Filter at the mart boundary rather than the view layer. dim_school and
dim_location both exclude TypeOfEstablishment in {25, 26, 30, 37}, listed once
as vars.non_england_school_type_codes. Everything downstream reads those two
marts — search, the school page, /api/filters, rankings, Typesense and
build_sitemap() — so one filter removes them from the site and the sitemap
together, and Typesense drops them on its next rebuild since it recreates the
collection and swaps the alias rather than upserting in place.
coalesce rather than a bare NOT IN: a null type code would make the predicate
null and drop the row silently, and an unknown type is not grounds for
exclusion. No establishment has a null type today, but a future GIAS refresh
could ship one and the loss would be invisible.
assert_england_only_schools guards both directions: no excluded type survives
in dim_school, and dim_location holds no URN dim_school lacks — the API
inner-joins them, so the two filters drifting apart would silently shrink the
corpus.
Corpus goes from 27,229 schools to 25,193, and the authority list from 182 to
153. The 1,569 Welsh URLs now 404.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015mWQnpye9F299NVRCCSRvj
These schools are still operating and publish results; they drop out
automatically when GIAS flips them to Closed since marts fully rebuild
each run.
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- Remove optional flag from total_pupils (Typesense requires default
sorting field to be non-optional)
- Add latitude/longitude columns to dim_location computed from PostGIS
geom, for direct use by backend and Typesense sync
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PostGIS extension lives in public schema; marts schema can't resolve
unqualified ST_MakePoint/ST_Transform calls.
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GIAS grid references are the actual school location — far more accurate
than postcode centroids. Remove geocode_postcodes.py from the daily DAG
and the postcode-not-null filter from dim_location.
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Convert GIAS British National Grid coordinates (EPSG:27700) to WGS84
(EPSG:4326) directly in the dbt model. The geocode script backfills
schools missing easting/northing via Postcodes.io.
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