Merge pull request 'fix(school): send the school page its admissions policy, and read it exactly' (#179) from fix/school-page-selective-flag into main

Reviewed-on: #179

backend/app.py

@@ -621,6 +621,31 @@ def verify_admin_api_key(x_api_key: str = Header(None)) -> bool:
     return True
 
 
+def _with_whole_school_pupils(rows: pd.DataFrame, source: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame:
+    """Set total_pupils to the size of the school.
+
+    fact_performance's total_pupils is the cohort a year's results were
+    measured on. For a secondary that is the GCSE year group alone (Burntwood:
+    245 against 1,462 on roll). Cards, map popups and place rows label it
+    "pupils", so they take the register's whole-school count instead, and
+    nothing when the register has none.
+    """
+    whole = source["gias_total_pupils"] if "gias_total_pupils" in source.columns else None
+    return rows.assign(total_pupils=whole)
+
+
+def _with_type_group(rows: pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame:
+    """Name each row's search-filter type group, or None for a type in no group.
+
+    The school page and the search rows print it ("State school") in place of
+    the GIAS establishment type, and an independent school gets a Fee-paying
+    flag from it.
+    """
+    if "school_type" not in rows.columns:
+        return rows
+    return rows.assign(type_group=rows["school_type"].map(type_group_for))
+
+
 # Input validation helpers
 def _names_in_group(names: pd.Series, in_group) -> set:
     """The distinct names in a column that a group predicate accepts.
@@ -859,7 +884,7 @@ async def get_schools(
         if c in df_latest.columns
     ]
     # fact_performance guarantees one row per (urn, year); df_latest has one row per urn.
-    schools_df = df_latest[available_cols]
+    schools_df = _with_whole_school_pupils(df_latest[available_cols], df_latest)
 
     # Location-based search (uses pre-geocoded data from database)
     search_coords = None
@@ -952,7 +977,7 @@ async def get_schools(
     total = len(schools_df)
     start_idx = (page - 1) * page_size
     end_idx = start_idx + page_size
-    schools_df = schools_df.iloc[start_idx:end_idx]
+    schools_df = _with_type_group(schools_df.iloc[start_idx:end_idx])
 
     return {
         "schools": clean_for_json(schools_df),
@@ -1016,11 +1041,14 @@ async def get_school_details(request: Request, urn: int):
             "school_name": latest.get("school_name", ""),
             "local_authority": latest.get("local_authority", ""),
             "school_type": latest.get("school_type", ""),
+            "type_group": type_group_for(latest.get("school_type")),
             "address": latest.get("address", ""),
             "religious_denomination": latest.get("religious_denomination", ""),
             "age_range": latest.get("age_range", ""),
             "has_sixth_form": latest.get("has_sixth_form"),
             "nursery_provision": latest.get("nursery_provision"),
+            # The header's Selective flag reads it (lib/schoolFacts).
+            "admissions_policy": latest.get("admissions_policy"),
             "status": latest.get("status"),
             "latitude": latest.get("latitude"),
             "longitude": latest.get("longitude"),
@@ -1509,13 +1537,12 @@ async def get_place(request: Request, kind: str, slug: str,
     # warning. Ordered de-duplication keeps the column order and the warning
     # cannot come back.
     #
-    # nursery_provision and parliamentary_constituency are not in
+    # parliamentary_constituency is not in SCHOOL_COLUMNS and the place table
-    # SCHOOL_COLUMNS and the place table shows both. The `in rows.columns`
+    # shows it. The `in rows.columns` guard is what keeps a mart the pipeline
-    # guard is what keeps a mart the pipeline has not rebuilt working: those
+    # has not rebuilt working: it and nursery_provision are the optional GIAS
-    # two are the optional GIAS columns data_loader degrades to NULL.
+    # columns data_loader degrades to NULL.
     cols = [c for c in dict.fromkeys(
                 SCHOOL_COLUMNS + ["latitude", "longitude", "phase",
-                                  "nursery_provision",
                                   "parliamentary_constituency",
                                   "rwm_expected_pct", "attainment_8_score",
                                   "total_pupils"])
@@ -1545,7 +1572,8 @@ async def get_place(request: Request, kind: str, slug: str,
                   # variants that exist rather than 404s.
                   "phases": [ph for ph in ("primary", "secondary")
                              if place.publishes_phase(ph)]},
-        "schools": clean_for_json(rows[cols]),
+        "schools": clean_for_json(
+            _with_type_group(_with_whole_school_pupils(rows[cols], rows))),
         "averages": averages,
     }
 

backend/schemas.py

@@ -569,6 +569,7 @@ SCHOOL_COLUMNS = [
     "religious_denomination",
     "age_range",
     "has_sixth_form",
+    "nursery_provision",
     "status",
     "gender",
     "admissions_policy",

backend/tests/test_school_page_flag_fields.py

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+"""The school page's header flags (nextjs-app/lib/schoolFacts.ts) read seven
+school_info fields, so the detail payload must carry every one.
+
+It lacked admissions_policy, so no school page could flag Selective while its
+search row did: Tiffin and The Grammar School at Leeds showed the tag in
+search and nothing on their own pages.
+"""
+
+import numpy as np
+import pandas as pd
+import pytest
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+# The fields schoolFlags() picks from School (FlagFields in lib/schoolFacts.ts).
+FLAG_FIELDS = (
+    "type_group", "admissions_policy", "gender", "religious_denomination",
+    "nursery_provision", "has_sixth_form", "phase",
+)
+
+
+def _school_df() -> pd.DataFrame:
+    return pd.DataFrame([{
+        "urn": 136910, "school_name": "Tiffin School", "phase": "Secondary",
+        "school_type": "Academy converter", "admissions_policy": "Selective",
+        "gender": "Boys", "religious_denomination": "Christian",
+        "nursery_provision": "Not applicable", "has_sixth_form": True,
+        "age_range": "11-18", "local_authority": "Kingston upon Thames",
+        "address": "Queen Elizabeth Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT2 6RL",
+        "postcode": "KT2 6RL", "latitude": 51.41, "longitude": -0.30,
+        "year": 202425, "attainment_8_score": 75.0, "total_pupils": 200,
+        "gias_total_pupils": 1478, "ofsted_grade": np.nan,
+    }])
+
+
+@pytest.fixture()
+def client(monkeypatch):
+    from backend import app as app_module
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(app_module, "load_school_data", _school_df)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(app_module, "load_latest_school_data", _school_df)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(app_module, "get_supplementary_data", lambda db, urn: {})
+    monkeypatch.setattr(app_module, "_place_registry", None)
+    return TestClient(app_module.app, raise_server_exceptions=False)
+
+
+def test_the_school_page_carries_every_field_its_flags_read(client):
+    resp = client.get("/api/schools/136910")
+    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+    info = resp.json()["school_info"]
+    assert [f for f in FLAG_FIELDS if f not in info] == []
+
+
+def test_the_school_page_says_a_selective_school_is_selective(client):
+    info = client.get("/api/schools/136910").json()["school_info"]
+    assert info["admissions_policy"] == "Selective"

backend/tests/test_type_group_payload.py

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+"""Payloads name each school's type group.
+
+The school page and the search rows say "State school" or "Independent
+school" in the search filter's own terms, not GIAS's 34 establishment types,
+and an independent school gets a Fee-paying flag. A type in no group keeps a
+null group, and the page prints the register's own name for it. Search rows
+also carry nursery_provision, for their "Nursery class" flag.
+"""
+
+import numpy as np
+import pandas as pd
+import pytest
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+
+def _schools_df() -> pd.DataFrame:
+    base = {
+        "local_authority": "Essex", "phase": "Primary", "year": 202425,
+        "ofsted_grade": 2.0, "ofsted_date": None, "attainment_8_score": np.nan,
+        "town": "Brentwood", "postcode": "CM13 1AA", "status": "Open",
+        "address": "1 Test Street", "latitude": 51.6, "longitude": 0.3,
+        "rwm_expected_pct": 60.0, "nursery_provision": "No Nursery Classes",
+    }
+    rows = [
+        {**base, "urn": 100001, "school_name": "Alpha Academy",
+         "school_type": "Academy converter", "nursery_provision": "Has Nursery Classes"},
+        {**base, "urn": 100002, "school_name": "Beta Prep",
+         "school_type": "Other independent school"},
+        {**base, "urn": 100003, "school_name": "Gamma Unit",
+         "school_type": "Secure units"},
+    ]
+    # Enough schools in one town for it to have a place page.
+    rows += [
+        {**base, "urn": 100010 + i, "school_name": f"Delta Primary {i}",
+         "school_type": "Community school"}
+        for i in range(3)
+    ]
+    return pd.DataFrame(rows)
+
+
+@pytest.fixture()
+def client(monkeypatch):
+    from backend import app as app_module
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(app_module, "load_latest_school_data", _schools_df)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(app_module, "load_school_data", _schools_df)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(app_module, "get_supplementary_data", lambda db, urn: {})
+    monkeypatch.setattr(app_module, "_place_registry", None)
+    return TestClient(app_module.app, raise_server_exceptions=False)
+
+
+def _by_urn(schools: list[dict]) -> dict[int, dict]:
+    return {s["urn"]: s for s in schools}
+
+
+def test_the_list_names_each_type_group(client):
+    resp = client.get("/api/schools?page_size=50")
+    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+    schools = _by_urn(resp.json()["schools"])
+    assert schools[100001]["type_group"] == "state"
+    assert schools[100002]["type_group"] == "independent"
+    assert schools[100003]["type_group"] is None
+
+
+def test_the_list_carries_nursery_provision(client):
+    schools = _by_urn(client.get("/api/schools?page_size=50").json()["schools"])
+    assert schools[100001]["nursery_provision"] == "Has Nursery Classes"
+
+
+def test_the_school_page_names_its_type_group(client):
+    resp = client.get("/api/schools/100002")
+    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+    assert resp.json()["school_info"]["type_group"] == "independent"
+
+
+def test_a_place_page_names_each_type_group(client):
+    resp = client.get("/api/places/town/brentwood")
+    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+    schools = _by_urn(resp.json()["schools"])
+    assert schools[100001]["type_group"] == "state"
+    assert schools[100003]["type_group"] is None

backend/tests/test_whole_school_pupils.py

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+"""Cards, map popups and place rows label total_pupils "pupils".
+
+fact_performance's total_pupils is the cohort a year's results were measured
+on. For a secondary that is the GCSE year group alone: Burntwood showed 245 in
+search against 1,462 on roll. The list and place payloads therefore carry the
+register's whole-school count, and nothing when the register has none.
+"""
+
+import numpy as np
+import pandas as pd
+import pytest
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+
+def _schools_df() -> pd.DataFrame:
+    base = {
+        "local_authority": "Essex", "school_type": "Academy converter",
+        "year": 202425, "ofsted_grade": 2.0, "ofsted_date": None,
+        "town": "Brentwood", "postcode": "CM13 1AA", "status": "Open",
+        "address": "1 Test Street", "latitude": 51.6, "longitude": 0.3,
+        "gender": "Mixed", "rwm_expected_pct": np.nan, "attainment_8_score": 50.0,
+    }
+    rows = [
+        # Secondary: results cohort 245, register 1,462.
+        {**base, "urn": 100001, "school_name": "Alpha High", "phase": "Secondary",
+         "total_pupils": 245, "gias_total_pupils": 1462},
+        # Register count missing: no count, never the cohort.
+        {**base, "urn": 100002, "school_name": "Beta High", "phase": "Secondary",
+         "total_pupils": 180, "gias_total_pupils": np.nan},
+    ]
+    # Enough schools in one town for it to have a place page.
+    rows += [
+        {**base, "urn": 100010 + i, "school_name": f"Gamma High {i}", "phase": "Secondary",
+         "total_pupils": 200, "gias_total_pupils": 1000 + i}
+        for i in range(5)
+    ]
+    return pd.DataFrame(rows)
+
+
+@pytest.fixture()
+def client(monkeypatch):
+    from backend import app as app_module
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(app_module, "load_latest_school_data", _schools_df)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(app_module, "load_school_data", _schools_df)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(app_module, "_place_registry", None)
+    return TestClient(app_module.app, raise_server_exceptions=False)
+
+
+def _pupils(schools: list[dict]) -> dict[int, object]:
+    return {s["urn"]: s.get("total_pupils") for s in schools}
+
+
+def test_the_list_carries_the_whole_school_count(client):
+    resp = client.get("/api/schools?page_size=50")
+    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+    pupils = _pupils(resp.json()["schools"])
+    assert pupils[100001] == 1462
+    assert pupils[100002] is None
+
+
+def test_a_place_page_carries_the_whole_school_count(client):
+    resp = client.get("/api/places/town/brentwood")
+    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+    pupils = _pupils(resp.json()["schools"])
+    assert pupils[100001] == 1462
+    assert pupils[100002] is None

e2e/tests/journeys.spec.ts

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ async function settledScrollLeft(scroller: Locator): Promise<number> {
  * whatever primaries the environment holds.
  */
 async function twoPrimaryUrns(page: Page): Promise<[string, string]> {
-  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=primary&per_page=50');
+  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=primary&page_size=50');
   expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
   const body = await res.json();
   const urns: string[] = (body.schools ?? [])
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ async function twoPrimaryUrns(page: Page): Promise<[string, string]> {
 }
 
 async function twoSecondaryUrns(page: Page): Promise<[string, string]> {
-  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=school&per_page=100');
+  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=school&page_size=100');
   expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
   const body = await res.json();
   const urns: string[] = (body.schools ?? [])
@@ -355,6 +355,84 @@ test('school type groups and the faith filter narrow to what they name', async (
   }
 });
 
+/*
+ * Search rows printed tags the register does not hold. Every non-selective
+ * secondary was "Selective" ("non-selective" contains "selective"), and a
+ * school with no religious character got "Faith priority" or a bare "None"
+ * chip, because only "Does not apply" was excluded. Data-invariant: each test
+ * picks its school from the API and reads only that school's row.
+ */
+async function rowTags(page: Page, school: { urn: number; school_name: string }) {
+  await searchByName(page, school.school_name);
+  const link = page.locator(`a[href^="/school/${school.urn}-"]`).first();
+  await expect(link).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+  return link.locator('xpath=ancestor::div[contains(@class, "__rowContent")][1]')
+    .locator('[class*="__line2"]');
+}
+
+test('a non-selective secondary is not tagged Selective in search', async ({ page }) => {
+  const res = await page.request.get(
+    '/api/schools?search=school&phase=secondary&admissions_policy=non-selective&page_size=1');
+  expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
+  const [school] = (await res.json()).schools ?? [];
+  test.skip(!school, 'no non-selective secondary in this environment');
+  expect(school.admissions_policy, 'the admissions filter was ignored').toBe('Non-selective');
+
+  const tags = await rowTags(page, school);
+  await expect(tags).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(tags.getByText('Selective', { exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
+test('a school with no religious character carries no faith tag in search', async ({ page }) => {
+  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=school&faith=none&page_size=100');
+  expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
+  // Not a selective school: the Selective tag would win and hide the bug.
+  const school = ((await res.json()).schools ?? []).find(
+    (s: { religious_denomination?: string; admissions_policy?: string }) =>
+      s.religious_denomination === 'None' && !/selective/i.test(s.admissions_policy ?? ''));
+  test.skip(!school, 'no school recorded with religious character "None" here');
+
+  const tags = await rowTags(page, school);
+  await expect(tags).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(tags.getByText('Faith priority', { exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+  await expect(tags.getByText('None', { exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+});
+
+test('search and the school page agree on how many pupils a secondary has', async ({ page }) => {
+  // Search showed the GCSE year group as "pupils": Burntwood had 245 in
+  // search and 1,462 on its page. Both now carry the register's count.
+  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=school&phase=secondary&page_size=20');
+  expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
+  const school = ((await res.json()).schools ?? []).find(
+    (s: { total_pupils?: number | null }) => s.total_pupils != null);
+  test.skip(!school, 'no secondary with a pupil count in this environment');
+  const detail = await (await page.request.get(`/api/schools/${school.urn}`)).json();
+  expect(school.total_pupils).toBe(detail.school_info.total_pupils);
+});
+
+test('a secondary search row compares its Attainment 8 with the LA average', async ({ page }) => {
+  // The comparison vanished unnoticed: the averages were fetched with
+  // force-cache, so one stored failure hid it in that browser for good.
+  // Playwright disables the HTTP cache when it intercepts requests, so this
+  // guards the comparison itself; the unit test pins the cache mode.
+  const la = await (await page.request.get('/api/la-averages')).json();
+  const averages: Record<string, number> = la.secondary?.attainment_8_by_la ?? {};
+  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=school&phase=secondary&page_size=50');
+  expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
+  const school = ((await res.json()).schools ?? []).find(
+    (s: { attainment_8_score?: number | null; local_authority?: string; school_type?: string }) =>
+      s.attainment_8_score != null && s.local_authority != null && averages[s.local_authority] != null
+      && !/special|pupil referral|alternative provision/i.test(s.school_type ?? ''));
+  test.skip(!school, 'no mainstream secondary with an LA average here');
+
+  await searchByName(page, school.school_name);
+  const link = page.locator(`a[href^="/school/${school.urn}-"]`).first();
+  await expect(link).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+  const stats = link.locator('xpath=ancestor::div[contains(@class, "__rowContent")][1]')
+    .locator('[class*="__line3"]');
+  await expect(stats.getByText(/vs LA avg/)).toBeVisible();
+});
+
 test('a phase outside primary/secondary filters to that phase, not to everything', async ({ page }) => {
   // The search page offers every GIAS phase, but the API only knew the grouped
   // ones and silently dropped the rest — so "Nursery" returned primaries.
@@ -432,9 +510,10 @@ test('school detail page shows GIAS identity/contact details and drops the unwir
   if (info.telephone) {
     await expect(page.locator('a[href^="tel:"]').first()).toBeVisible();
   }
-  if (info.parliamentary_constituency) {
+  // Constituency and county left the header in the facts-and-flags redesign:
-    await expect(page.getByText('Constituency:').first()).toBeVisible();
+  // neither helps a parent decide. The place pages keep both.
-  }
+  await expect(page.getByText('Constituency:')).toHaveCount(0);
+  await expect(page.getByText('County:')).toHaveCount(0);
 });
 
 test('header details collapse behind a "Show all details" toggle on mobile', async ({ page }) => {
@@ -544,7 +623,7 @@ test('school with no performance data still gets a working detail page', async (
   const candidates: number[] = [];
   for (const q of ['post 16', 'specialist college', 'sixth form']) {
     const resp = await page.request.get(
-      `/api/schools?search=${encodeURIComponent(q)}&per_page=20`
+      `/api/schools?search=${encodeURIComponent(q)}&page_size=20`
     );
     if (!resp.ok()) continue;
     const body = await resp.json();
@@ -1123,7 +1202,7 @@ test('compare metric-help popover stays within the mobile viewport', async ({ pa
 test('admissions year/trend toggle still switches views after the server/client split', async ({ page }) => {
   // Find a school with at least two years carrying an offer rate — the toggle
   // only appears then. Data-invariant: uses whatever the environment holds.
-  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=primary&per_page=50');
+  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=primary&page_size=50');
   expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
   const candidates: number[] = ((await res.json()).schools ?? []).map((s: { urn: number }) => s.urn);
 
@@ -2083,7 +2162,7 @@ test('English schools with Welsh postcodes are kept', async ({ page }) => {
 test('a Welsh school URL 404s while an English one still resolves', async ({ page }) => {
   // Paired on purpose: the Welsh assertion alone would also pass if the whole
   // site were down, which is the failure this test most needs to distinguish.
-  const english = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=primary&per_page=1');
+  const english = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=primary&page_size=1');
   expect(english.ok()).toBeTruthy();
   const [first] = (await english.json()).schools ?? [];
   expect(first, 'no English school available to compare against').toBeTruthy();
@@ -2193,7 +2272,7 @@ test('a filtered homepage still canonicalises to the bare root', async ({ page }
 });
 
 test('a school page canonicalises to its own slug on the www host', async ({ page }) => {
-  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=primary&per_page=1');
+  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=primary&page_size=1');
   expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
   const [first] = (await res.json()).schools ?? [];
   expect(first, 'no school available').toBeTruthy();
@@ -2268,7 +2347,7 @@ function blocksEverything(robots: string, agent: string): boolean {
 }
 
 test('a school page on staging is noindexed too, not just the homepage', async ({ page }) => {
-  const list = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=primary&per_page=1');
+  const list = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=primary&page_size=1');
   const [first] = (await list.json()).schools ?? [];
   expect(first, 'no school available').toBeTruthy();
 
@@ -2879,7 +2958,7 @@ test('with autosuggest off, the search box is a plain input', async ({ page }) =
 async function secondaryWithDestinations(page: Page): Promise<{
   urn: string; destinations: any;
 }> {
-  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=school&per_page=100');
+  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=school&page_size=100');
   expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
   const body = await res.json();
   const urns: string[] = (body.schools ?? [])
@@ -2975,7 +3054,7 @@ test('switching to disadvantaged pupils never reveals a withheld figure', async
 });
 
 test('a school with no sixth form has no post-16 destinations section', async ({ page }) => {
-  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=school&per_page=100');
+  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=school&page_size=100');
   const body = await res.json();
   const noSixthForm = (body.schools ?? [])
     .filter((s: { phase?: string; has_sixth_form?: boolean }) =>
@@ -3286,3 +3365,85 @@ for (const width of [360, 390, 430]) {
     expect(failing).toEqual([]);
   });
 }
+
+/*
+ * The header's facts row read GIAS text as booleans: "Not applicable" put a
+ * "Nursery" chip on secondaries aged 11–18, and "Girls" became "Girls's
+ * school". Data-invariant: the chip follows whatever the API says.
+ */
+test('a girls\' secondary header names it properly and shows Nursery only when it has one', async ({ page }) => {
+  const res = await page.request.get('/api/schools?search=school&phase=secondary&gender=girls&page_size=1');
+  expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
+  const [school] = (await res.json()).schools ?? [];
+  test.skip(!school, 'no girls\' secondary in this environment');
+  expect(school.gender, 'the gender filter was ignored').toBe('Girls');
+  const detail = await (await page.request.get(`/api/schools/${school.urn}`)).json();
+  // Without the field, the Nursery assertion below would pass vacuously.
+  expect(detail.school_info).toHaveProperty('nursery_provision');
+
+  await page.goto(`/school/${school.urn}`);
+  const header = page.locator('header', { has: page.getByRole('heading', { level: 1 }) });
+  await expect(header.getByText("Girls' school", { exact: true })).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+  await expect(header.getByText(/'s school/)).toHaveCount(0);
+  await expect(header.getByText('Nursery class', { exact: true }))
+    .toHaveCount(detail.school_info.nursery_provision === 'Has Nursery Classes' ? 1 : 0);
+});
+
+/*
+ * The header states facts in fixed slots and flags only what applies: a
+ * selective school is flagged Selective, and its type reads in the search
+ * filter's words, not as a GIAS establishment type. The search row carries
+ * the same flag. Data-invariant: the school comes from the API.
+ */
+const TYPE_GROUP_LABELS: Record<string, string> = {
+  state: 'State school', independent: 'Independent school', special: 'Special school (SEND)',
+  post16: 'Sixth form or college', alternative: 'Alternative provision',
+};
+
+test('a selective school is flagged Selective, on its page and in search', async ({ page }) => {
+  const res = await page.request.get(
+    '/api/schools?search=school&phase=secondary&admissions_policy=selective&page_size=1');
+  expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
+  const [school] = (await res.json()).schools ?? [];
+  test.skip(!school, 'no selective secondary in this environment');
+  expect(school.admissions_policy, 'the admissions filter was ignored').toBe('Selective');
+  expect(school, 'the list must name the type group').toHaveProperty('type_group');
+
+  await page.goto(`/school/${school.urn}`);
+  const header = page.locator('header', { has: page.getByRole('heading', { level: 1 }) });
+  const flags = header.getByRole('list', { name: 'Admission and provision' });
+  await expect(flags.getByText('Selective', { exact: true })).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+  const typeLabel = TYPE_GROUP_LABELS[school.type_group] ?? school.school_type;
+  await expect(header.getByText(typeLabel, { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+
+  const tags = await rowTags(page, school);
+  await expect(tags.getByText('Selective', { exact: true })).toBeVisible();
+});
+
+/*
+ * The Admissions section repeated the search rows' old tag logic: "selective"
+ * matched inside "Non-selective", and "None" counted as a faith, so Burntwood
+ * read "this school has a faith-based admissions priority (None)". The
+ * Selective half stayed hidden only because the school page's API did not
+ * send admissions_policy. Data-invariant: the school comes from the API, and
+ * must have an Admissions section to read.
+ */
+test('a non-selective school with no faith makes neither claim in its Admissions section', async ({ page }) => {
+  const res = await page.request.get(
+    '/api/schools?search=school&phase=secondary&faith=none&admissions_policy=non-selective&page_size=20');
+  expect(res.ok()).toBeTruthy();
+  let urn: number | null = null;
+  for (const s of ((await res.json()).schools ?? []).slice(0, 8)) {
+    if (s.religious_denomination !== 'None') continue;
+    const detail = await (await page.request.get(`/api/schools/${s.urn}`)).json();
+    if (detail.admissions) { urn = s.urn; break; }
+  }
+  test.skip(urn == null, 'no non-selective, no-faith secondary with admissions data here');
+
+  await page.goto(`/school/${urn}`);
+  const admissions = page.locator('section#admissions');
+  await expect(admissions).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+  await expect(admissions.getByText('Selective:', { exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+  await expect(admissions.getByText('Faith priority:', { exact: true })).toHaveCount(0);
+  await expect(admissions.getByText(/\(None\)/)).toHaveCount(0);
+});

nextjs-app/__tests__/components/HomeView.staleFetch.test.tsx

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { act, fireEvent, render, screen } from '@testing-library/react';
 import { HomeView } from '@/components/HomeView';
-import { fetchSchools } from '@/lib/api';
+import { fetchLAaverages, fetchSchools } from '@/lib/api';
 import { primaryFixture } from '../support/schoolFixtures';
 import type { SchoolsResponse, School } from '@/lib/types';
 
@@ -84,3 +84,23 @@ test('failed map requests can be retried by reopening the map', async () => {
   expect(fetchSchools).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
   expect(screen.getByTestId('map')).toHaveTextContent('Retry result');
 });
+
+test('LA averages are not fetched with force-cache, so one failure is not replayed for good', async () => {
+  // force-cache serves any stored response, however old, without asking the
+  // server. A request that failed once (a staging deploy restart, the July
+  // proxy outage) was stored and replayed on every later visit, and the
+  // "vs LA avg" delta vanished from every secondary row in that browser.
+  // The default mode honours the API's Cache-Control and never reuses an
+  // error.
+  params = new URLSearchParams('search=high');
+  const secondary: SchoolsResponse = {
+    ...response('Alpha High'),
+    schools: [{ ...primaryFixture.schoolInfo, school_name: 'Alpha High', phase: 'Secondary', attainment_8_score: 50 }],
+  };
+  render(<HomeView initialSchools={secondary} filters={filters} />);
+  await act(async () => {});
+  expect(fetchLAaverages).toHaveBeenCalled();
+  for (const [options] of jest.mocked(fetchLAaverages).mock.calls) {
+    expect(options?.cache).not.toBe('force-cache');
+  }
+});

nextjs-app/__tests__/components/PlaceView.test.tsx

@@ -361,12 +361,12 @@ describe('PlaceView school attributes', () => {
       { urn: 1, school_name: 'Alpha Primary', phase: 'Primary',
         rwm_expected_pct: 82, attainment_8_score: null,
         age_range: '4-11', religious_denomination: 'Church of England',
-        nursery_provision: true,
+        nursery_provision: 'Has Nursery Classes',
         parliamentary_constituency: 'Chelmsford' } as never,
       { urn: 2, school_name: 'Beta High', phase: 'Secondary',
         rwm_expected_pct: null, attainment_8_score: 47,
         age_range: '11-16', religious_denomination: 'Does not apply',
-        nursery_provision: false,
+        nursery_provision: 'No Nursery Classes',
         parliamentary_constituency: 'Witham' } as never,
     ],
     averages: { rwm_expected_pct: 63, attainment_8_score: 45 },
@@ -459,6 +459,18 @@ describe('PlaceView school attributes', () => {
     expect(cells.slice(2)).toEqual(['—', '—', '—', '—']);
   });
 
+  it('reads "Not applicable" as no nursery, not as a yes', () => {
+    // GIAS sends text. Tested for truthiness, every value was a "Yes".
+    const notApplicable: PlaceDetail = {
+      ...withAttributes,
+      schools: [{ urn: 5, school_name: 'Epsilon Primary', phase: 'Primary',
+                  rwm_expected_pct: 70, nursery_provision: 'Not applicable' } as never],
+    };
+    const { container } = render(<PlaceView detail={notApplicable} phase="primary"
+      englandAverage={61} neighbours={[]} />);
+    expect(container.querySelector('tbody')!.textContent).not.toContain('Yes');
+  });
+
   it('gives an all-through school its nursery under primary only', () => {
     // All-through schools render in both groups. Nursery belongs to the
     // primary reading of the same school, not the secondary one.
@@ -467,7 +479,7 @@ describe('PlaceView school attributes', () => {
       schools: [{ urn: 4, school_name: 'Delta Academy', phase: 'All-through',
                   rwm_expected_pct: 66, attainment_8_score: 51,
                   age_range: '4-18', religious_denomination: 'None',
-                  nursery_provision: true,
+                  nursery_provision: 'Has Nursery Classes',
                   parliamentary_constituency: 'Chelmsford' } as never],
     };
     const { container } = render(<PlaceView detail={allThrough}

nextjs-app/__tests__/components/SchoolRow.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/**
+ * SchoolRow (primary search results): line 2 prints the religious character
+ * only when the school has one. The register's "None" was printed as a chip.
+ */
+
+import '@testing-library/jest-dom';
+import { render, screen } from '@testing-library/react';
+import { SchoolRow } from '@/components/SchoolRow';
+import type { School } from '@/lib/types';
+
+const base = {
+  urn: 100001,
+  school_name: 'Alpha Primary School',
+  local_authority: 'Testshire',
+  school_type: 'Free schools',
+  phase: 'Primary',
+  gender: 'Mixed',
+  age_range: '4-11',
+  rwm_expected_pct: 70,
+} as unknown as School;
+
+describe('SchoolRow religious character', () => {
+  it.each(['None', 'Does not apply', ''])(
+    'prints nothing when the register says %p',
+    (religious_denomination) => {
+      render(<SchoolRow school={{ ...base, religious_denomination }} />);
+      expect(screen.queryByText('None')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+      expect(screen.queryByText('Does not apply')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    },
+  );
+
+  it('prints a religious character the school has', () => {
+    render(<SchoolRow school={{ ...base, religious_denomination: 'Church of England' }} />);
+    expect(screen.getByText('Church of England')).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('SchoolRow shares the school page flags', () => {
+  it("prints the type in the search filter's terms", () => {
+    render(<SchoolRow school={{ ...base, type_group: 'state' }} />);
+    expect(screen.getByText('State school')).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.queryByText('Free schools')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('flags a nursery class', () => {
+    render(<SchoolRow school={{ ...base, nursery_provision: 'Has Nursery Classes' }} />);
+    expect(screen.getByText('Nursery class')).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("flags a boys' school", () => {
+    render(<SchoolRow school={{ ...base, gender: 'Boys' }} />);
+    expect(screen.getByText("Boys' school")).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});

nextjs-app/__tests__/components/SecondarySchoolRow.test.tsx

@@ -65,3 +65,54 @@ describe('SecondarySchoolRow proposed-to-close tag', () => {
     expect(screen.queryByText(/Proposed to close/)).not.toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 });
+
+describe('SecondarySchoolRow admissions tag', () => {
+  it('tags a selective school', () => {
+    render(<SecondarySchoolRow school={{ ...base, admissions_policy: 'Selective' }} />);
+    expect(screen.getByText('Selective')).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('does not tag a non-selective school as selective', () => {
+    // "Non-selective" contains "selective": a substring test tagged every
+    // comprehensive (Burntwood, Graveney) as Selective.
+    render(<SecondarySchoolRow school={{ ...base, admissions_policy: 'Non-selective' }} />);
+    expect(screen.queryByText('Selective')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it.each(['None', 'Does not apply'])(
+    'gives no faith tag when the religious character is %p',
+    (religious_denomination) => {
+      render(
+        <SecondarySchoolRow
+          school={{ ...base, admissions_policy: 'Not applicable', religious_denomination }}
+        />,
+      );
+      expect(screen.queryByText(religious_denomination)).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+      expect(screen.queryByText('Faith priority')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    },
+  );
+
+  it('tags the religious character the register records, not "Faith priority"', () => {
+    render(
+      <SecondarySchoolRow
+        school={{ ...base, admissions_policy: 'Not applicable', religious_denomination: 'Church of England' }}
+      />,
+    );
+    expect(screen.getByText('Church of England')).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.queryByText('Faith priority')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('SecondarySchoolRow shares the school page flags', () => {
+  it("prints the type in the search filter's terms", () => {
+    render(<SecondarySchoolRow school={{ ...base, type_group: 'state' }} />);
+    expect(screen.getByText('State school')).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.queryByText('Academy')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("flags a girls' school and fees", () => {
+    render(<SecondarySchoolRow school={{ ...base, type_group: 'independent', gender: 'Girls' }} />);
+    expect(screen.getByText("Girls' school")).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.getByText('Fee-paying')).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});

nextjs-app/__tests__/components/schoolDetailHeader.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+/**
+ * The school header: one fact line (phase, ages, type, pupils), then flags
+ * only for what applies, then the address and the details.
+ *
+ * nursery_provision is GIAS text, not a boolean: "Has Nursery Classes",
+ * "No Nursery Classes" or "Not applicable". Tested for truthiness, every one
+ * of those read as a nursery, so secondaries aged 11–18 showed "Nursery".
+ */
+
+import { screen, within } from '@testing-library/react';
+import type { School } from '@/lib/types';
+import { primaryFixture, secondaryFixture } from '../support/schoolFixtures';
+import { renderSchoolDetail, renderSecondarySchoolDetail } from '../support/renderSchoolDetail';
+
+jest.mock('@/lib/analytics', () => ({
+  track: jest.fn(),
+  getNavigationSource: () => 'direct',
+}));
+jest.mock('@/components/PerformanceChart', () => ({
+  PerformanceChart: () => <div data-testid="performance-chart" />,
+}));
+jest.mock('@/components/SatsChart', () => ({
+  __esModule: true,
+  default: () => <div data-testid="sats-chart" />,
+}));
+jest.mock('@/components/AdmissionsTrendChart', () => ({
+  __esModule: true,
+  default: () => <div data-testid="admissions-trend-chart" />,
+}));
+jest.mock('@/components/SchoolHeroMap', () => ({
+  SchoolHeroMap: () => <div data-testid="hero-map" />,
+  __esModule: true,
+}));
+
+function withSchool<T extends { schoolInfo: School }>(fixture: T, info: Partial<School>): T {
+  return { ...fixture, schoolInfo: { ...fixture.schoolInfo, ...info } };
+}
+
+const flagList = () => screen.queryByRole('list', { name: 'Admission and provision' });
+const flagLabels = () => within(flagList()!).getAllByRole('listitem').map((li) => li.textContent);
+
+describe('school header fact line', () => {
+  it('states phase, ages, type and pupils, in that order', () => {
+    renderSchoolDetail(withSchool(primaryFixture, { type_group: 'state' }));
+    const line = screen.getByText('Ages 4–11').parentElement!;
+    expect(line).toHaveTextContent(/^PrimaryAges 4–11State school420 pupils$/);
+  });
+
+  it("prints the register's type name for a type in no group", () => {
+    renderSchoolDetail(withSchool(primaryFixture, { type_group: null, school_type: 'Secure units' }));
+    expect(screen.getByText('Secure units')).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('no longer prints the GIAS establishment type', () => {
+    renderSecondarySchoolDetail(withSchool(secondaryFixture, { type_group: 'state' }));
+    expect(screen.queryByText('Academy converter')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('school header flags', () => {
+  it('shows no flag list for a school with nothing to flag', () => {
+    renderSchoolDetail(withSchool(primaryFixture, { type_group: 'state' }));
+    expect(flagList()).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('lists who-can-apply flags, then what the school offers', () => {
+    renderSecondarySchoolDetail(withSchool(secondaryFixture, {
+      type_group: 'independent', admissions_policy: 'Selective', gender: 'Girls',
+      religious_denomination: 'Church of England', has_sixth_form: true,
+    }));
+    expect(flagLabels()).toEqual(['Fee-paying', 'Selective', "Girls' school", 'Church of England', 'Sixth form']);
+  });
+
+  it('shows Nursery class when GIAS says the school has nursery classes', () => {
+    renderSchoolDetail(withSchool(primaryFixture, { nursery_provision: 'Has Nursery Classes' }));
+    expect(flagLabels()).toEqual(['Nursery class']);
+  });
+
+  it.each(['No Nursery Classes', 'Not applicable', null])(
+    'shows no nursery flag when GIAS says %p',
+    (value) => {
+      renderSecondarySchoolDetail(withSchool(secondaryFixture, { nursery_provision: value }));
+      expect(screen.queryByText(/^Nursery/)).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    },
+  );
+
+  it.each([['Girls', "Girls' school"], ['Boys', "Boys' school"]])(
+    'labels a %s school with a plural possessive',
+    (gender, label) => {
+      renderSecondarySchoolDetail(withSchool(secondaryFixture, { gender }));
+      expect(screen.getByText(label)).toBeInTheDocument();
+      expect(screen.queryByText(/'s school/)).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    },
+  );
+
+  it('says nothing for a mixed school', () => {
+    renderSecondarySchoolDetail(withSchool(secondaryFixture, { gender: 'Mixed' }));
+    expect(screen.queryByText(/^(Girls|Boys|Mixed)'s? school$/)).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('school header address', () => {
+  it('names the council after the postcode', () => {
+    renderSchoolDetail(primaryFixture);
+    expect(screen.getByText(/TE1 1ST · Westshire/)).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('leaves the council out when the address already names it', () => {
+    renderSchoolDetail(withSchool(primaryFixture, { local_authority: 'Testville' }));
+    expect(screen.queryByText(/· Testville/)).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('school header details', () => {
+  const detailed = {
+    headteacher_name: 'Mrs A Head', capacity: 426, county: 'Surrey',
+    parliamentary_constituency: 'Putney', religious_denomination: 'Church of England',
+  };
+
+  it('drops county, constituency and religious character', () => {
+    renderSchoolDetail(withSchool(primaryFixture, detailed));
+    expect(screen.queryByText('County:')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.queryByText('Constituency:')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.queryByText('Religious character:')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('shows the capacity', () => {
+    renderSchoolDetail(withSchool(primaryFixture, detailed));
+    expect(screen.getByText('Capacity:').parentElement).toHaveTextContent('Capacity: 426');
+  });
+
+  it('names an academy trust', () => {
+    renderSchoolDetail(withSchool(primaryFixture, { trust_name: 'BURNTWOOD TRUST' }));
+    expect(screen.getByText('Academy trust:').parentElement).toHaveTextContent('BURNTWOOD TRUST');
+  });
+
+  it("hides a trust that has the school's own name", () => {
+    renderSchoolDetail(withSchool(primaryFixture, { trust_name: 'TEST PRIMARY SCHOOL' }));
+    expect(screen.queryByText('Academy trust:')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});

nextjs-app/__tests__/components/schoolPupilCount.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/**
+ * "Pupils" on a school page is the size of the school.
+ *
+ * A year's results row carries the cohort its figures were measured on. For a
+ * secondary that is the GCSE year group alone (Burntwood: 245, against 1,462
+ * on roll), so it must never stand in for the whole-school count.
+ */
+
+import { screen } from '@testing-library/react';
+import { secondaryFixture } from '../support/schoolFixtures';
+import { renderSecondarySchoolDetail } from '../support/renderSchoolDetail';
+
+jest.mock('@/lib/analytics', () => ({
+  track: jest.fn(),
+  getNavigationSource: () => 'direct',
+}));
+jest.mock('@/components/PerformanceChart', () => ({
+  PerformanceChart: () => <div data-testid="performance-chart" />,
+}));
+jest.mock('@/components/SatsChart', () => ({
+  __esModule: true,
+  default: () => <div data-testid="sats-chart" />,
+}));
+jest.mock('@/components/AdmissionsTrendChart', () => ({
+  __esModule: true,
+  default: () => <div data-testid="admissions-trend-chart" />,
+}));
+jest.mock('@/components/SchoolHeroMap', () => ({
+  SchoolHeroMap: () => <div data-testid="hero-map" />,
+  __esModule: true,
+}));
+
+function withoutCensus(schoolTotal: number | null) {
+  const yearlyData = secondaryFixture.yearlyData.map((r) => ({ ...r, total_pupils: 245 }));
+  return {
+    ...secondaryFixture,
+    census: null,
+    yearlyData,
+    schoolInfo: { ...secondaryFixture.schoolInfo, total_pupils: schoolTotal },
+  };
+}
+
+describe('pupil count without a census record', () => {
+  it('uses the register count in the header, not the results cohort', () => {
+    renderSecondarySchoolDetail(withoutCensus(1462));
+    expect(screen.getByText('1,462 pupils')).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.queryByText('245 pupils')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('shows no count rather than the results cohort when the register has none', () => {
+    renderSecondarySchoolDetail(withoutCensus(null));
+    expect(screen.queryByText(/^[\d,]+ pupils$/)).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.queryByText('Total pupils')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});

nextjs-app/__tests__/components/secondaryAdmissionsTag.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+/**
+ * The Admissions section's Selective and faith notes.
+ *
+ * It tested the policy with includes('selective'), which "Non-selective"
+ * passes, and excluded only "Does not apply" from the religious character, so
+ * Burntwood (no religious character, recorded as "None") read "this school
+ * has a faith-based admissions priority (None)". The Selective half never
+ * fired only because the school page's API did not send admissions_policy.
+ */
+
+import { screen, within } from '@testing-library/react';
+import type { School } from '@/lib/types';
+import { secondaryFixture } from '../support/schoolFixtures';
+import { renderSecondarySchoolDetail } from '../support/renderSchoolDetail';
+
+jest.mock('@/lib/analytics', () => ({
+  track: jest.fn(),
+  getNavigationSource: () => 'direct',
+}));
+jest.mock('@/components/PerformanceChart', () => ({
+  PerformanceChart: () => <div data-testid="performance-chart" />,
+}));
+jest.mock('@/components/AdmissionsTrendChart', () => ({
+  __esModule: true,
+  default: () => <div data-testid="admissions-trend-chart" />,
+}));
+jest.mock('@/components/SchoolHeroMap', () => ({
+  SchoolHeroMap: () => <div data-testid="hero-map" />,
+  __esModule: true,
+}));
+
+function admissionsOf(info: Partial<School>) {
+  renderSecondarySchoolDetail({ ...secondaryFixture, schoolInfo: { ...secondaryFixture.schoolInfo, ...info } });
+  return within(screen.getByRole('heading', { name: 'Admissions' }).closest('section')!);
+}
+
+describe('Admissions section notes', () => {
+  it('notes the entrance test for a selective school', () => {
+    const section = admissionsOf({ admissions_policy: 'Selective', religious_denomination: 'None' });
+    expect(section.getByText('Selective:')).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('does not call a non-selective school selective', () => {
+    const section = admissionsOf({ admissions_policy: 'Non-selective', religious_denomination: 'None' });
+    expect(section.queryByText('Selective:')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it.each(['None', 'Does not apply'])('claims no faith priority when the register says %p', (religious_denomination) => {
+    // Not "Non-selective": a misread Selective would win and hide this case.
+    const section = admissionsOf({ admissions_policy: 'Not applicable', religious_denomination });
+    expect(section.queryByText('Faith priority:')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('notes the religious character of a faith school', () => {
+    const section = admissionsOf({ admissions_policy: 'Non-selective', religious_denomination: 'Church of England' });
+    expect(section.getByText('Faith priority:')).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});

nextjs-app/__tests__/lib/lastDistanceOffered.test.ts

@@ -157,6 +157,13 @@ describe('compareToCutoff', () => {
 });
 
 describe('describeCutoffAbsence', () => {
+  it('does not read "Non-selective" as selective', () => {
+    // A substring test matched "selective" inside "Non-selective".
+    const s = describeCutoffAbsence({ localAuthority: 'Wandsworth', admissionsPolicy: 'Non-selective' });
+    expect(s).not.toMatch(/entrance test/);
+    expect(s).toMatch(/^Wandsworth has not published/);
+  });
+
   it('explains a selective school by how it admits, not as missing data', () => {
     const s = describeCutoffAbsence({ localAuthority: 'Kent', admissionsPolicy: 'Selective' });
     expect(s).toContain('entrance test');

nextjs-app/__tests__/lib/schoolFacts.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+/**
+ * The facts the school header and the search rows print: a type in the search
+ * filter's terms, and flags only for what applies.
+ */
+
+import { schoolFlags, schoolTypeLabel } from '@/lib/schoolFacts';
+import type { School } from '@/lib/types';
+
+const school = (over: Partial<School>): School =>
+  ({ urn: 1, school_name: 'Test School', ...over }) as School;
+
+const labels = (over: Partial<School>) => schoolFlags(school(over)).map((f) => f.label);
+
+describe('schoolTypeLabel', () => {
+  it.each([
+    ['state', 'State school'],
+    ['independent', 'Independent school'],
+    ['special', 'Special school (SEND)'],
+    ['post16', 'Sixth form or college'],
+    ['alternative', 'Alternative provision'],
+  ])("names the %s group in the search filter's terms", (type_group, label) => {
+    expect(schoolTypeLabel(school({ type_group, school_type: 'Academy converter' }))).toBe(label);
+  });
+
+  it("prints the register's own name for a type in no group", () => {
+    expect(schoolTypeLabel(school({ type_group: null, school_type: 'Secure units' }))).toBe('Secure units');
+  });
+
+  it('returns null when there is no type at all', () => {
+    expect(schoolTypeLabel(school({}))).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('schoolFlags', () => {
+  it('flags nothing for a mixed, non-faith, non-selective state school', () => {
+    expect(labels({
+      type_group: 'state', gender: 'Mixed', admissions_policy: 'Non-selective',
+      religious_denomination: 'None', nursery_provision: 'No Nursery Classes',
+      has_sixth_form: false, phase: 'Secondary',
+    })).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('lists who-can-apply flags first, then what the school offers, in a fixed order', () => {
+    expect(labels({
+      type_group: 'independent', admissions_policy: 'Selective', gender: 'Boys',
+      religious_denomination: 'Christian', nursery_provision: 'Has Nursery Classes',
+      has_sixth_form: true, phase: 'All-through',
+    })).toEqual(['Fee-paying', 'Selective', "Boys' school", 'Christian', 'Nursery class', 'Sixth form']);
+  });
+
+  it('marks who-can-apply flags as conditions and offers as provision', () => {
+    const kinds = Object.fromEntries(
+      schoolFlags(school({ admissions_policy: 'Selective', has_sixth_form: true, phase: 'Secondary' }))
+        .map((f) => [f.label, f.kind]),
+    );
+    expect(kinds).toEqual({ Selective: 'condition', 'Sixth form': 'provision' });
+  });
+
+  it('never prints Non-selective, and never a no-faith value', () => {
+    expect(labels({ admissions_policy: 'Non-selective', religious_denomination: 'Does not apply' })).toEqual([]);
+    expect(labels({ admissions_policy: 'Not applicable', religious_denomination: 'None' })).toEqual([]);
+    // PlaceView's rule: GIAS sometimes says "Not applicable" for no faith too.
+    expect(labels({ religious_denomination: 'Not applicable' })).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('prints the religious character as the register records it', () => {
+    expect(labels({ religious_denomination: 'Church of England/Methodist' })).toEqual(['Church of England/Methodist']);
+  });
+
+  it('does not flag a nursery class on a nursery school, or a sixth form on a post-16 one', () => {
+    expect(labels({ phase: 'Nursery', nursery_provision: 'Has Nursery Classes' })).toEqual([]);
+    expect(labels({ phase: '16 plus', has_sixth_form: true })).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});

nextjs-app/__tests__/lib/utils.test.ts

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ import {
   computeYBounds,
   formatAgeRange,
   formatAgeSpan,
+  hasNurseryClasses,
+  singleSexLabel,
 } from '@/lib/utils';
 
 describe('formatPercentage', () => {
@@ -346,3 +348,32 @@ describe('formatAgeRange', () => {
     expect(formatAgeRange('4-11')).toBe('Ages 4–11');
   });
 });
+
+describe('hasNurseryClasses', () => {
+  it('is true only for the GIAS value that means it', () => {
+    // GIAS sends text, and two of its three values mean no nursery.
+    expect(hasNurseryClasses('Has Nursery Classes')).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasNurseryClasses('No Nursery Classes')).toBe(false);
+    expect(hasNurseryClasses('Not applicable')).toBe(false);
+    expect(hasNurseryClasses(null)).toBe(false);
+    expect(hasNurseryClasses(undefined)).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('singleSexLabel', () => {
+  it('uses the plural possessive GIAS values need', () => {
+    expect(singleSexLabel('Girls')).toBe("Girls' school");
+    expect(singleSexLabel('Boys')).toBe("Boys' school");
+  });
+
+  it('ignores case, as hasNurseryClasses does', () => {
+    expect(singleSexLabel(' girls ')).toBe("Girls' school");
+    expect(singleSexLabel('BOYS')).toBe("Boys' school");
+  });
+
+  it('returns null for a mixed or unknown school', () => {
+    expect(singleSexLabel('Mixed')).toBeNull();
+    expect(singleSexLabel(null)).toBeNull();
+    expect(singleSexLabel(undefined)).toBeNull();
+  });
+});

nextjs-app/__tests__/support/renderSchoolDetail.tsx

@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ export function renderSchoolDetail(fixture: any) {
     withProviders(
       <SchoolDetailShell
         schoolInfo={fixture.schoolInfo}
-        yearlyData={fixture.yearlyData}
         census={fixture.census}
         navItems={navItems}
       >
@@ -67,7 +66,6 @@ export function renderSecondarySchoolDetail(fixture: any) {
     withProviders(
       <SchoolDetailShell
         schoolInfo={fixture.schoolInfo}
-        yearlyData={fixture.yearlyData}
         census={fixture.census}
         navItems={navItems}
       >

nextjs-app/app/(frontend)/school/[slug]/page.tsx

@@ -249,7 +249,6 @@ export default async function SchoolPage({ params }: SchoolPageProps) {
       {isSecondary ? (
         <SchoolDetailShell
           schoolInfo={school_info}
-          yearlyData={yearly_data}
           census={census ?? null}
           navItems={secondaryNavItems}
         >
@@ -273,7 +272,6 @@ export default async function SchoolPage({ params }: SchoolPageProps) {
       ) : (
         <SchoolDetailShell
           schoolInfo={school_info}
-          yearlyData={yearly_data}
           census={census ?? null}
           navItems={primaryNavItems}
         >

nextjs-app/components/HomeView.tsx

@@ -358,10 +358,14 @@ export function HomeView({ initialSchools, filters, totalSchools, howItWorks, ed
     return () => controller.abort();
   }, [resultsView, searchParams, initialSchools.schools]);
 
-  // Fetch LA averages when secondary or mixed schools are visible
+  // Fetch LA averages when secondary or mixed schools are visible. Default
+  // cache mode, never force-cache: force-cache replays any stored response
+  // without asking the server, so one failed request (a deploy restart) hid
+  // every "vs LA avg" delta in that browser for good. The API's Cache-Control
+  // already lets the browser reuse a good answer for five minutes.
   useEffect(() => {
     if (!isSecondaryView && !isMixedView) return;
-    fetchLAaverages({ cache: 'force-cache' })
+    fetchLAaverages()
       .then(data => setLaAverages(data.secondary.attainment_8_by_la))
       .catch(() => {});
   }, [isSecondaryView, isMixedView]);

nextjs-app/components/SchoolRow.module.css

@@ -100,6 +100,19 @@
   color: var(--text-secondary);
 }
 
+/* Changes who can apply or what it costs. Outlined, not tinted: a fact, not
+   a verdict. An inset ring keeps the box the size of its neighbours. */
+.conditionTag {
+  display: inline-block;
+  padding: 0.0625rem 0.4rem;
+  font-size: 0.75rem;
+  font-weight: 600;
+  line-height: 1.4;
+  border-radius: 4px;
+  box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(var(--ink-rgb), 0.4);
+  color: var(--text-primary);
+}
+
 /* Line 3: stats */
 .line3 {
   display: flex;

nextjs-app/components/SchoolRow.tsx

@@ -3,13 +3,14 @@
  * Four-line row for primary school search results
  *
  * Line 1: School name · Ofsted badge (framework-aware)
- * Line 2: School type · Age range · Denomination · Gender
+ * Line 2: Phase · Type · Age range · the school page's flags (lib/schoolFacts)
  * Line 3: Reading, Writing & Maths % · trend arrow · vs-national delta · Pupils
  * Line 4: Local authority · Distance
  */
 
 import type { School } from '@/lib/types';
 import { formatPercentage, calculateTrend, getPhaseStyle, schoolUrl, buildOfstedListBadge, formatAgeRange, isProposedToClose, isSpecialSchool, listRwmValue } from '@/lib/utils';
+import { schoolFlags, schoolTypeLabel } from '@/lib/schoolFacts';
 import styles from './SchoolRow.module.css';
 
 interface SchoolRowProps {
@@ -33,10 +34,8 @@ export function SchoolRow({
   const phase = getPhaseStyle(school.phase);
   const ofstedBadge = buildOfstedListBadge(school);
 
-  const showGender = school.gender && school.gender.toLowerCase() !== 'mixed';
+  const typeLabel = schoolTypeLabel(school);
-  const showDenomination =
+  const flags = schoolFlags(school);
-    school.religious_denomination &&
-    school.religious_denomination !== 'Does not apply';
 
   // The school's OWN figure and its year-over-year trend are same-school
   // measures — shown whenever there's a real value (not the all-zero
@@ -79,10 +78,16 @@ export function SchoolRow({
               {phase.label}
             </span>
           )}
-          {school.school_type && <span className={styles.attr}>{school.school_type}</span>}
+          {typeLabel && <span className={styles.attr}>{typeLabel}</span>}
           {school.age_range && <span className={styles.attr}>{formatAgeRange(school.age_range)}</span>}
-          {showDenomination && <span className={styles.attr}>{school.religious_denomination}</span>}
+          {flags.map((flag) => (
-          {showGender && <span className={styles.attr}>{school.gender}</span>}
+            <span
+              key={flag.label}
+              className={flag.kind === 'condition' ? styles.conditionTag : styles.attr}
+            >
+              {flag.label}
+            </span>
+          ))}
           {isProposedToClose(school) && (
             <span className={`${styles.attr} ${styles.attrClosing}`}>⚠ Proposed to close</span>
           )}

nextjs-app/components/SecondarySchoolRow.module.css

@@ -183,9 +183,17 @@
   white-space: nowrap;
 }
 
-.selectiveTag {
+/* Changes who can apply or what it costs. Outlined, not tinted: a fact, not
-  background: rgba(var(--status-below-rgb), 0.1);
+   a verdict. An inset ring keeps the box the size of its neighbours. */
-  color: var(--status-below);
+.conditionTag {
+  display: inline-block;
+  padding: 0.0625rem 0.4rem;
+  font-size: 0.75rem;
+  font-weight: 600;
+  line-height: 1.4;
+  border-radius: 4px;
+  box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(var(--ink-rgb), 0.4);
+  color: var(--text-primary);
 }
 
 /* ── Ofsted badge ────────────────────────────────────── */

nextjs-app/components/SecondarySchoolRow.tsx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * Four-line row for secondary school search results
  *
  * Line 1: School name · Ofsted badge
- * Line 2: School type · Age range · Gender · Sixth form · Admissions tag
+ * Line 2: Phase · Type · Age range · the school page's flags (lib/schoolFacts)
  * Line 3: Attainment 8 (large) · ±LA avg delta · Pupils
  * Line 4: LA name · distance
  */
@@ -12,21 +12,9 @@
 
 import type { School } from '@/lib/types';
 import { buildOfstedListBadge, getPhaseStyle, schoolUrl, formatAgeRange, isProposedToClose, isSpecialSchool } from '@/lib/utils';
+import { schoolFlags, schoolTypeLabel } from '@/lib/schoolFacts';
 import styles from './SecondarySchoolRow.module.css';
 
-function detectAdmissionsTag(school: School): string | null {
-  const policy = school.admissions_policy?.toLowerCase() ?? '';
-  if (policy.includes('selective')) return 'Selective';
-  const denom = school.religious_denomination ?? '';
-  if (denom && denom !== 'Does not apply') return 'Faith priority';
-  return null;
-}
-
-function hasSixthForm(school: School): boolean {
-  // GIAS OfficialSixthForm flag; missing (pipeline not yet re-run) => false.
-  return school.has_sixth_form ?? false;
-}
-
 interface SecondarySchoolRowProps {
   school: School;
   isLocationSearch?: boolean;
@@ -64,9 +52,8 @@ export function SecondarySchoolRow({
       ? att8 - laAvgAttainment8
       : null;
 
-  const admissionsTag = detectAdmissionsTag(school);
+  const typeLabel = schoolTypeLabel(school);
-  const sixthForm = hasSixthForm(school);
+  const flags = schoolFlags(school);
-  const showGender = school.gender && school.gender.toLowerCase() !== 'mixed';
 
   return (
     <div className={`${styles.row} ${phase.key ? styles[`phase${phase.key}`] : ''} ${isInCompare ? styles.rowInCompare : ''}`}>
@@ -90,19 +77,16 @@ export function SecondarySchoolRow({
               {phase.label}
             </span>
           )}
-          {school.school_type && <span className={styles.attr}>{school.school_type}</span>}
+          {typeLabel && <span className={styles.attr}>{typeLabel}</span>}
           {school.age_range && <span className={styles.attr}>{formatAgeRange(school.age_range)}</span>}
-          {showGender && (
+          {flags.map((flag) => (
-            <span className={styles.provisionTag}>{school.gender}</span>
+            <span
-          )}
+              key={flag.label}
-          {sixthForm && (
+              className={flag.kind === 'condition' ? styles.conditionTag : styles.provisionTag}
-            <span className={styles.provisionTag}>Sixth form</span>
+            >
-          )}
+              {flag.label}
-          {admissionsTag && (
-            <span className={`${styles.provisionTag} ${admissionsTag === 'Selective' ? styles.selectiveTag : ''}`}>
-              {admissionsTag}
             </span>
-          )}
+          ))}
           {isProposedToClose(school) && (
             <span className={`${styles.provisionTag} ${styles.closingTag}`}>⚠ Proposed to close</span>
           )}

nextjs-app/components/places/PlaceView.tsx

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import Link from 'next/link';
 import type { PlaceDetail, PlaceSummary } from '@/lib/places';
 import { placeUrl, authoritySlug } from '@/lib/places';
 import type { School } from '@/lib/types';
-import { schoolUrl, formatAgeSpan } from '@/lib/utils';
+import { schoolUrl, formatAgeSpan, hasNurseryClasses } from '@/lib/utils';
 import { absoluteUrl } from '@/lib/site';
 import { TrackPlaceView } from './TrackPlaceView';
 import styles from './PlaceView.module.css';
@@ -131,9 +131,10 @@ function SchoolTable({ schools, phase }: { schools: School[]; phase: PhaseKey })
                 {showNursery && (
                   <td className={styles.attr}>
                     {/* Undefined is a mart the pipeline has not rebuilt, and
-                        false is a school without one. Neither is a "Yes", and
+                        "No Nursery Classes" or "Not applicable" is a school
-                        neither is worth two different words. */}
+                        without one. None is a "Yes", and none is worth a
-                    {s.nursery_provision ? 'Yes' : NO_VALUE}
+                        different word. */}
+                    {hasNurseryClasses(s.nursery_provision) ? 'Yes' : NO_VALUE}
                   </td>
                 )}
                 <td className={styles.attrWide}>

nextjs-app/components/school/SchoolDetailShell.module.css

@@ -145,20 +145,90 @@
 }
 
 
-.meta {
+/* Fact line: the phase pill, then plain register values joined by dots.
+   The line starts 1.125rem left of the column and clips that strip, so a
+   value that wraps to the start of a line loses the dot in front of it
+   instead of opening the line with one. */
+.facts {
     display: flex;
     flex-wrap: wrap;
-    gap: 0.5rem;
+    align-items: center;
-    margin-bottom: 0.5rem;
+    row-gap: 0.25rem;
+    margin: 0 0 0.5rem -1.125rem;
+    clip-path: inset(0 0 0 1.125rem);
+    font-size: 0.875rem;
+    color: var(--text-secondary);
 }
 
 
-.metaItem {
+.facts > * {
-    font-size: 0.8125rem;
+    margin-left: 1.125rem;
+}
+
+
+.fact {
+    position: relative;
+}
+
+
+.fact::before {
+    content: "·";
+    position: absolute;
+    left: -0.75rem;
+    color: var(--text-muted);
+}
+
+
+/* The search rows' phase pill, in the same phase colours. */
+.phasePill {
+    padding: 0.0625rem 0.4rem;
+    font-size: 0.75rem;
+    font-weight: 600;
+    line-height: 1.4;
+    border-radius: 4px;
+    white-space: nowrap;
+}
+
+.phasePillPrimary    { background: var(--phase-primary-bg);     color: var(--phase-primary-text); }
+.phasePillSecondary  { background: var(--phase-secondary-bg);   color: var(--phase-secondary-text); }
+.phasePillAllThrough { background: var(--phase-all-through-bg); color: var(--phase-all-through-text); }
+.phasePillPost16     { background: var(--phase-post16-bg);      color: var(--phase-post16-text); }
+.phasePillNursery    { background: var(--phase-nursery-bg);     color: var(--phase-nursery-text); }
+
+
+/* Flags are facts, not verdicts, so they carry no hue. Outlined changes who
+   can apply or what it costs; filled is what the school offers. Text may
+   wrap: the longest religious character runs past a 360px line. */
+.flags {
+    display: flex;
+    flex-wrap: wrap;
+    gap: 0.375rem;
+    margin: 0 0 0.625rem;
+    padding: 0;
+    list-style: none;
+}
+
+
+.flagCondition,
+.flagProvision {
+    padding: 0.0625rem 0.5rem;
+    font-size: 0.75rem;
+    font-weight: 600;
+    line-height: 1.4;
+    border: 1px solid transparent;
+    border-radius: 4px;
+}
+
+
+.flagCondition {
+    border-color: rgba(var(--ink-rgb), 0.4);
+    color: var(--text-primary);
+}
+
+
+.flagProvision {
+    background: rgba(var(--ink-rgb), 0.07);
     color: var(--text-secondary);
-    padding: 0.125rem 0.5rem;
-    background: var(--bg-secondary);
-    border-radius: 3px;
 }
 
 
@@ -703,17 +773,8 @@
         word-break: break-word;
     }
 
-    /* Pills wrap horizontally instead of stacking — short tokens like
+    /* Secondary header info (headteacher, website, phone, trust, capacity)
-       "Manchester" / "Voluntary aided" fit 2 per row instead of 3 full
+       isn't needed above the fold on phones/tablets, so it's
-       rows of empty horizontal space. */
-    .meta {
-        flex-direction: row;
-        flex-wrap: wrap;
-        gap: 0.375rem;
-    }
-
-    /* Secondary header info (headteacher, website, pupil count, trust,
-       contact, area) isn't needed above the fold on phones/tablets, so it's
        collapsed by default and revealed on demand via the "Show all details"
        link — reclaiming the vertical space so the metrics surface sooner. */
     .detailsToggle {

nextjs-app/components/school/SchoolDetailShell.tsx

@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ import { useEffect, useRef, useState, type ReactNode } from 'react';
 import { useRouter } from 'next/navigation';
 import { useComparison } from '@/hooks/useComparison';
 import { SchoolHeroMap, type SchoolHeroMapHandle } from '../SchoolHeroMap';
-import type { School, SchoolResult, SchoolCensus } from '@/lib/types';
+import type { School, SchoolCensus } from '@/lib/types';
-import { formatAgeRange, isProposedToClose } from '@/lib/utils';
+import { formatAgeRange, getPhaseStyle, isProposedToClose } from '@/lib/utils';
+import { schoolFlags, schoolTypeLabel } from '@/lib/schoolFacts';
 import type { NavItem } from '@/lib/schoolSections';
 import { track, getNavigationSource } from '@/lib/analytics';
 import styles from './SchoolDetailShell.module.css';
@@ -34,8 +35,6 @@ import styles from './SchoolDetailShell.module.css';
  */
 export interface SchoolDetailShellProps {
   schoolInfo: School;
-  /** Only for the header's pupil-count fallback. */
-  yearlyData: SchoolResult[];
   census: SchoolCensus | null;
   /** Section list for the sticky nav, computed on the server. */
   navItems: NavItem[];
@@ -43,8 +42,14 @@ export interface SchoolDetailShellProps {
   children: ReactNode;
 }
 
+/** Equal ignoring case and punctuation: "TIFFIN SCHOOL" is Tiffin School. */
+function sameName(a: string, b: string): boolean {
+  const key = (s: string) => s.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9]/g, '');
+  return key(a) === key(b);
+}
+
 export function SchoolDetailShell({
-  schoolInfo, yearlyData, census, navItems, children,
+  schoolInfo, census, navItems, children,
 }: SchoolDetailShellProps) {
   const router = useRouter();
   const { addSchool, removeSchool, isSelected } = useComparison();
@@ -63,7 +68,7 @@ export function SchoolDetailShell({
   const heroMapRef = useRef<SchoolHeroMapHandle>(null);
   // "All ▾" jump menu listing every section.
   const [sectionsOpen, setSectionsOpen] = useState(false);
-  // Header details (headteacher, contact, trust, area) collapse behind a
+  // Header details (headteacher, contact, trust, capacity) collapse behind a
   // "Show all details" link on mobile/tablet, where they're below the fold.
   const [detailsOpen, setDetailsOpen] = useState(false);
 
@@ -122,15 +127,34 @@ export function SchoolDetailShell({
     return () => window.removeEventListener('keydown', onKey);
   }, [sectionsOpen]);
 
-  // The chrome needs only these four. The section-shape flags are computed
+  // The chrome needs only these few. The section-shape flags are computed
   // once on the server (lib/schoolSections) and consumed by the section
   // composers; recomputing them here would duplicate that work for values
   // this component never renders.
-  const latestResults = yearlyData.length > 0 ? yearlyData[yearlyData.length - 1] : null;
   const phase = schoolInfo.phase ?? '';
-  const isAllThrough = phase.toLowerCase() === 'all-through';
   const hasLocation = schoolInfo.latitude != null && schoolInfo.longitude != null;
 
+  // Header facts: each is one register value in a fixed slot (lib/schoolFacts).
+  const phasePill = getPhaseStyle(schoolInfo.phase);
+  // Never latestResults.total_pupils: that is the results cohort, which for a
+  // secondary is the GCSE year group alone.
+  const pupils = census?.total_pupils ?? schoolInfo.total_pupils ?? null;
+  const facts = [
+    formatAgeRange(schoolInfo.age_range),
+    schoolTypeLabel(schoolInfo),
+    pupils != null ? `${pupils.toLocaleString()} pupils` : null,
+  ].filter((fact): fact is string => !!fact);
+  const flags = schoolFlags(schoolInfo);
+  // The council, unless the address already names it.
+  const council = schoolInfo.local_authority
+    && !(schoolInfo.address ?? '').toLowerCase().includes(schoolInfo.local_authority.toLowerCase())
+    ? schoolInfo.local_authority
+    : null;
+  // A single-academy trust carries the school's own name, which says nothing.
+  const trust = schoolInfo.trust_name && !sameName(schoolInfo.trust_name, schoolInfo.school_name)
+    ? schoolInfo.trust_name
+    : null;
+
   const handleComparisonToggle = () => {
     if (isInComparison) {
       removeSchool(schoolInfo.urn);
@@ -204,29 +228,31 @@ export function SchoolDetailShell({
         <div className={styles.headerContent}>
           <div className={styles.titleSection}>
             <h1 className={styles.schoolName}>{schoolInfo.school_name}</h1>
-            <div className={styles.meta}>
+            {(phasePill.label || facts.length > 0) && (
-              {schoolInfo.local_authority && (
+              <div className={styles.facts}>
-                <span className={styles.metaItem}>{schoolInfo.local_authority}</span>
+                {phasePill.label && (
-              )}
+                  <span className={`${styles.phasePill} ${styles[`phasePill${phasePill.key}`]}`}>
-              {schoolInfo.school_type && (
+                    {phasePill.label}
-                <span className={styles.metaItem}>{schoolInfo.school_type}</span>
+                  </span>
-              )}
-              {isAllThrough && (
-                <span className={styles.metaItem}>All-through (primary &amp; secondary)</span>
-              )}
-              {schoolInfo.gender && schoolInfo.gender !== 'Mixed' && (
-                <span className={styles.metaItem}>{schoolInfo.gender}&apos;s school</span>
-              )}
-              {schoolInfo.age_range && (
-                <span className={styles.metaItem}>{formatAgeRange(schoolInfo.age_range)}</span>
-              )}
-              {schoolInfo.nursery_provision && (
-                <span className={styles.metaItem}>Nursery</span>
-              )}
-              {schoolInfo.has_sixth_form && (
-                <span className={styles.metaItem}>Sixth form</span>
                 )}
+                {facts.map((fact) => (
+                  <span key={fact} className={styles.fact}>{fact}</span>
+                ))}
               </div>
+            )}
+            {flags.length > 0 && (
+              // role="list": list-style: none drops list semantics in Safari.
+              <ul role="list" className={styles.flags} aria-label="Admission and provision">
+                {flags.map((flag) => (
+                  <li
+                    key={flag.label}
+                    className={flag.kind === 'condition' ? styles.flagCondition : styles.flagProvision}
+                  >
+                    {flag.label}
+                  </li>
+                ))}
+              </ul>
+            )}
             {isProposedToClose(schoolInfo) && (
               <div className={styles.closingStrip} role="note">
                 <strong>⚠ Proposed to close.</strong> Check with the local authority before
@@ -236,6 +262,7 @@ export function SchoolDetailShell({
             {schoolInfo.address && (
               <p className={styles.address}>
                 {schoolInfo.address}{schoolInfo.postcode && `, ${schoolInfo.postcode}`}
+                {council && ` · ${council}`}
                 {hasLocation && (
                   <>
                     {' · '}
@@ -282,21 +309,6 @@ export function SchoolDetailShell({
                   </a>
                 </span>
               )}
-              {(() => {
-                const total = census?.total_pupils ?? latestResults?.total_pupils ?? null;
-                if (total == null) return null;
-                return (
-                  <span className={styles.headerDetail}>
-                    <strong>Pupils:</strong> {total.toLocaleString()}
-                    {schoolInfo.capacity != null && ` (capacity: ${schoolInfo.capacity})`}
-                  </span>
-                );
-              })()}
-              {schoolInfo.trust_name && (
-                <span className={styles.headerDetail}>
-                  Part of <strong>{schoolInfo.trust_name}</strong>
-                </span>
-              )}
               {schoolInfo.telephone && (
                 <span className={styles.headerDetail}>
                   <strong>Phone:</strong>{' '}
@@ -305,22 +317,14 @@ export function SchoolDetailShell({
                   </a>
                 </span>
               )}
-              {schoolInfo.religious_denomination && (
+              {trust && (
                 <span className={styles.headerDetail}>
-                  <strong>Religious character:</strong>{' '}
+                  <strong>Academy trust:</strong> {trust}
-                  {['Does not apply', 'None'].includes(schoolInfo.religious_denomination)
-                    ? 'None'
-                    : schoolInfo.religious_denomination}
                 </span>
               )}
-              {schoolInfo.county && (
+              {schoolInfo.capacity != null && (
                 <span className={styles.headerDetail}>
-                  <strong>County:</strong> {schoolInfo.county}
+                  <strong>Capacity:</strong> {schoolInfo.capacity.toLocaleString()}
-                </span>
-              )}
-              {schoolInfo.parliamentary_constituency && (
-                <span className={styles.headerDetail}>
-                  <strong>Constituency:</strong> {schoolInfo.parliamentary_constituency}
                 </span>
               )}
             </div>

nextjs-app/components/school/SecondaryAdmissionsSection.tsx

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  */
 
 import type { School, SchoolAdmissions, SchoolAdmissionDistance } from '@/lib/types';
-import { formatPercentage } from '@/lib/utils';
+import { formatPercentage, hasReligiousCharacter, isSelective } from '@/lib/utils';
 import { Section, sectionStyles as styles } from './sectionShared';
 import {
   describeCutoff, describeCutoffAbsence,
@@ -33,10 +33,8 @@ export function SecondaryAdmissionsSection({
   const featureOn = admissionDistance !== undefined;
   // Moved with this section from SecondarySchoolDetailView, its only consumer.
   const admissionsTag = (() => {
-    const policy = schoolInfo.admissions_policy?.toLowerCase() ?? '';
+    if (isSelective(schoolInfo.admissions_policy)) return 'Selective';
-    if (policy.includes('selective')) return 'Selective';
+    if (hasReligiousCharacter(schoolInfo.religious_denomination)) return 'Faith priority';
-    const denom = schoolInfo.religious_denomination ?? '';
-    if (denom && denom !== 'Does not apply') return 'Faith priority';
     return null;
   })();
 

nextjs-app/components/school/WellbeingSection.tsx

@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ export function WellbeingSection({
               </div>
             )}
             {(() => {
-              const total = census?.total_pupils ?? schoolInfo.total_pupils ?? latestResults?.total_pupils ?? null;
+              // Not latestResults.total_pupils: that is the GCSE year group.
+              const total = census?.total_pupils ?? schoolInfo.total_pupils ?? null;
               if (total == null) return null;
               const female = census?.female_pupils ?? null;
               const male = census?.male_pupils ?? null;

nextjs-app/components/school/lastDistanceOffered.ts

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  */
 
 import type { SchoolAdmissionDistance } from '@/lib/types';
-import { formatCutoffDistance, formatMiles, formatEntryYear } from '@/lib/utils';
+import { formatCutoffDistance, formatMiles, formatEntryYear, isSelective } from '@/lib/utils';
 
 export interface CutoffDisplay {
   /** Headline figure, e.g. "0.31 miles". */
@@ -193,8 +193,7 @@ export function describeCutoffAbsence({
   admissionsPolicy,
   admissionsHistory = [],
 }: AbsenceInput): string {
-  const policy = (admissionsPolicy ?? '').toLowerCase();
+  if (isSelective(admissionsPolicy)) {
-  if (policy.includes('selective')) {
     return 'Places at this school are ranked by the entrance test rather than by '
       + 'distance, so no cut-off distance applies.';
   }

nextjs-app/lib/schoolFacts.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+/**
+ * The facts the school header and the search rows print, so a parent reads
+ * the same words in the list and on the page.
+ *
+ * Every value comes from one register field. Nothing is inferred or explained
+ * inline, and a missing field prints nothing.
+ */
+
+import type { School } from './types';
+import { hasNurseryClasses, hasReligiousCharacter, isSelective, singleSexLabel } from './utils';
+
+/** The search filter's type groups (backend/school_groups.py), without its
+ *  parenthesised notes: fees have a flag of their own. */
+const TYPE_GROUP_LABELS: Record<string, string> = {
+  state: 'State school',
+  independent: 'Independent school',
+  special: 'Special school (SEND)',
+  post16: 'Sixth form or college',
+  alternative: 'Alternative provision',
+};
+
+/** The school's type in the search filter's terms, or the register's own name
+ *  for a type in no group (secure units, online providers). */
+export function schoolTypeLabel(school: Pick<School, 'type_group' | 'school_type'>): string | null {
+  const grouped = school.type_group ? TYPE_GROUP_LABELS[school.type_group] : undefined;
+  return grouped ?? (school.school_type?.trim() || null);
+}
+
+/** "condition": changes who can apply or what it costs.
+ *  "provision": what the school offers. */
+export type SchoolFlagKind = 'condition' | 'provision';
+
+export interface SchoolFlag {
+  label: string;
+  kind: SchoolFlagKind;
+}
+
+type FlagFields = Pick<
+  School,
+  'type_group' | 'admissions_policy' | 'gender' | 'religious_denomination'
+  | 'nursery_provision' | 'has_sixth_form' | 'phase'
+>;
+
+/**
+ * Flags for what applies, in a fixed order: conditions first, then provision.
+ *
+ * Selective needs the exact value. The register files a partly selective
+ * school as "Non-selective", so that value is never printed.
+ */
+export function schoolFlags(school: FlagFields): SchoolFlag[] {
+  const flags: SchoolFlag[] = [];
+  const condition = (label: string) => flags.push({ label, kind: 'condition' });
+  const provision = (label: string) => flags.push({ label, kind: 'provision' });
+  const phase = school.phase?.trim().toLowerCase();
+
+  if (school.type_group === 'independent') condition('Fee-paying');
+  if (isSelective(school.admissions_policy)) condition('Selective');
+  const singleSex = singleSexLabel(school.gender);
+  if (singleSex) condition(singleSex);
+  if (hasReligiousCharacter(school.religious_denomination)) {
+    condition(school.religious_denomination!.trim());
+  }
+  if (hasNurseryClasses(school.nursery_provision) && phase !== 'nursery') provision('Nursery class');
+  if (school.has_sixth_form && phase !== '16 plus') provision('Sixth form');
+  return flags;
+}

nextjs-app/lib/types.ts

@@ -17,10 +17,13 @@ export interface School {
   local_authority_code: number | null;
   school_type: string | null;
   school_type_code: string | null;
+  /** Search-filter type group ("state", "independent"…), null for a type in none. */
+  type_group?: string | null;
   religious_denomination: string | null;
   age_range: string | null;
   has_sixth_form?: boolean | null;
-  nursery_provision?: boolean | null;
+  /** GIAS text; read it through hasNurseryClasses(). */
+  nursery_provision?: string | null;
   status?: string | null; // GIAS establishment status ("Open" / "Open, but proposed to close")
 
   // Address

nextjs-app/lib/utils.ts

@@ -99,6 +99,26 @@ export function formatAgeRange(ageRange: string | null | undefined): string {
   return /^\d+–\d+$/.test(span) ? `Ages ${span}` : span;
 }
 
+/**
+ * GIAS NurseryProvision is text: "Has Nursery Classes", "No Nursery Classes"
+ * or "Not applicable". Only the first means a nursery, so never test the raw
+ * value for truthiness.
+ */
+export function hasNurseryClasses(value: string | null | undefined): boolean {
+  return value?.trim().toLowerCase() === 'has nursery classes';
+}
+
+/**
+ * "Girls' school" / "Boys' school" for a single-sex school, null otherwise.
+ * GIAS genders are plural, so the possessive is a bare apostrophe.
+ */
+export function singleSexLabel(gender: string | null | undefined): string | null {
+  const g = gender?.trim().toLowerCase();
+  if (g === 'girls') return "Girls' school";
+  if (g === 'boys') return "Boys' school";
+  return null;
+}
+
 // ============================================================================
 // Number Formatting
 // ============================================================================
@@ -902,6 +922,25 @@ export function isSpecialSchool(school: { school_type?: string | null }): boolea
   return /\bspecial\b/.test(t) || /pupil referral/.test(t) || /alternative provision/.test(t);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Whether GIAS records a religious character. "None", "Does not apply" and
+ * "Not applicable" are the register's ways of saying it has none; the place
+ * table (PlaceView's NO_FAITH) reads the same three.
+ */
+export function hasReligiousCharacter(value: string | null | undefined): boolean {
+  const v = value?.trim().toLowerCase() ?? '';
+  return v !== '' && v !== 'none' && v !== 'does not apply' && v !== 'not applicable';
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whether GIAS records the school as selective. Exact: "Non-selective"
+ * contains "selective", so a substring test read every comprehensive as
+ * selective. (The register files a partly selective school as non-selective.)
+ */
+export function isSelective(admissionsPolicy: string | null | undefined): boolean {
+  return admissionsPolicy?.trim().toLowerCase() === 'selective';
+}
+
 /**
  * The school's combined Reading, Writing & Maths figure, or null when there is
  * no real one to show.