fix(school): drop the nearby section's lede, which repeated its heading

"Other schools nearby" was followed by "Other primary schools near
<school>.", which says the same thing again. The heading now stands alone.

nearbyNoun() and the phase and schoolName props existed only to build that
line, so they go with it. Its bottom margin was the only gap between the
heading and the cards, so the header row carries that gap now, and centres
the heading against the carousel arrows now that it is a single line.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 import { render, screen } from '@testing-library/react';
 
 import {
-  nearbyNoun,
   NearbySchoolsSection,
   shouldRenderNearby,
 } from '@/components/school/NearbySchoolsSection';
@@ -43,13 +42,7 @@ function school(overrides: Partial<NearbySchool> = {}): NearbySchool {
 
 function renderSection(nearby: NearbySchool[]) {
   return render(
-    <NearbySchoolsSection
-      urn={100001}
-      schoolName="Meadowbrook Primary School"
-      phase="Primary"
-      thisMetricValue={72}
-      nearby={nearby}
-    />,
+    <NearbySchoolsSection urn={100001} thisMetricValue={72} nearby={nearby} />,
   );
 }
 
@@ -90,15 +83,10 @@ describe('what the section claims', () => {
   });
 
   it('shows no chips at all when nothing is shared, rather than inventing one', () => {
-    const { container } = render(
-      <NearbySchoolsSection
-        urn={100001}
-        schoolName="Meadowbrook Primary School"
-        phase="Primary"
-        thisMetricValue={72}
-        nearby={[school({ shared: [] }), school({ urn: 100003, shared: [] })]}
-      />,
-    );
+    const { container } = renderSection([
+      school({ shared: [] }),
+      school({ urn: 100003, shared: [] }),
+    ]);
     // The card still carries its distance, name, type and figure — just no
     // claim of likeness.
     expect(container.querySelectorAll('li ul').length).toBe(0);
@@ -106,37 +94,6 @@ describe('what the section claims', () => {
   });
 });
 
-describe('what the lede calls the set', () => {
-  it.each([
-    ['Primary', 'primary schools'],
-    ['Middle deemed primary', 'primary schools'],
-    ['Secondary', 'secondary schools'],
-    ['Middle deemed secondary', 'secondary schools'],
-    ['All-through', 'all-through schools'],
-    // GIAS phase 6. Its candidates span the whole secondary group, so no
-    // single noun fits and it takes the honest general one.
-    ['16 plus', 'schools and colleges'],
-    ['', 'schools'],
-    [null, 'schools'],
-  ])('calls a %s school\'s neighbours "%s"', (phase, expected) => {
-    expect(nearbyNoun(phase)).toBe(expected);
-  });
-
-  it('never calls a sixth form college\'s neighbours primary schools', () => {
-    render(
-      <NearbySchoolsSection
-        urn={100001}
-        schoolName="Barnet Sixth Form College"
-        phase="16 plus"
-        thisMetricValue={null}
-        nearby={[school(), school({ urn: 100003 })]}
-      />,
-    );
-    expect(screen.getByText(/Other schools and colleges near Barnet Sixth Form College/)).toBeInTheDocument();
-    expect(screen.queryByText(/primary schools/)).not.toBeInTheDocument();
-  });
-});
-
 describe('cards', () => {
   it('links each school to its canonical slug', () => {
     renderSection([school(), school({ urn: 100003, school_name: 'Oakfield Primary School' })]);

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

@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 .heading { font-family: var(--font-display); font-size: 1.4rem; letter-spacing: -0.4px; margin: 0; }
-.lede { margin: 0.5rem 0 1.25rem; color: var(--text-secondary); max-width: 64ch; }
 .caption { margin: 1rem 0 0; font-size: 0.72rem; color: var(--text-muted); }
 
-.top { display: flex; align-items: flex-start; justify-content: space-between; gap: 1rem; }
+.top { display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: space-between; gap: 1rem; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; }
 .arrows { display: flex; gap: 0.5rem; flex: none; }
 .arrow { width: 44px; height: 44px; display: grid; place-items: center; cursor: pointer; border: 1px solid var(--border-strong); border-radius: 999px; background: var(--bg-card); color: var(--brand); }
 .arrow:hover:not(:disabled) { border-color: var(--brand); background: var(--brand-bg); }
@@ -15,10 +14,10 @@
 .scroller { display: grid; grid-auto-flow: column; grid-auto-columns: calc((100% - 1.8rem) / 3); gap: 0.9rem; overflow-x: auto; scroll-snap-type: x mandatory; padding: 2px; margin: -2px; list-style: none; scrollbar-width: none; -ms-overflow-style: none; }
 .scroller::-webkit-scrollbar { display: none; }
 @media (max-width: 820px) { .scroller { grid-auto-columns: calc((100% - 0.9rem) / 2); } }
-/* Touch widths (MOBILE.md): the arrows would take 96px from a 328px card and
-   crush the lede into four lines, for a control swiping already provides. They
-   go, and the documented right-edge fade carries the affordance — lifting at
-   the end of the travel, where there is nothing more to hint at. */
+/* Touch widths (MOBILE.md): the arrows would take 96px from a 328px card, for
+   a control swiping already provides. They go, and the documented right-edge
+   fade carries the affordance — lifting at the end of the travel, where there
+   is nothing more to hint at. */
 @media (max-width: 640px) {
   .top { display: block; }
   .arrows { display: none; }

nextjs-app/components/school/NearbySchoolsCarousel.tsx

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * The scroller and its arrows.
  *
  * `children` are the server-rendered cards and `header` the server-rendered
- * heading and lede: both stay server components, passed through, so this file
+ * heading: both stay server components, passed through, so this file
  * owns a DOM ref and nothing else. That is what keeps all six links in the
  * initial HTML — a carousel that mounted cards on click would put four of the
  * six beyond a crawler and beyond a reader with no JavaScript.

nextjs-app/components/school/NearbySchoolsSection.tsx

@@ -13,8 +13,10 @@
  * reached on their behalf.
  *
  * There is deliberately no "how these are chosen" panel: the method is already
- * visible in the lede, the chips and the distances. The single caption line is
- * not a method note — it is the one thing a card cannot self-correct.
+ * visible in the chips and the distances. The single caption line is not a
+ * method note — it is the one thing a card cannot self-correct.
+ *
+ * Nor is there a lede: "Other primary schools near X" only restated the heading.
  */
 
 import Link from 'next/link';
@@ -32,28 +34,6 @@ export function shouldRenderNearby(nearby?: NearbySchool[] | null): boolean {
   return (nearby?.length ?? 0) >= MINIMUM;
 }
 
-/**
- * What the lede calls the set of schools it is showing.
- *
- * Derived from the school's own GIAS phase rather than the template it renders
- * with, because those disagree for "16 plus" (GIAS phase 6): a sixth-form
- * college renders the primary template — computeSchoolFlags tests for the
- * substring "secondary" — while the backend correctly matches it against the
- * secondary group. Taking the noun from the template would print "Other primary
- * schools near <sixth form college>" above a row of secondaries.
- *
- * A 16-plus school's candidates span the whole secondary group, so no single
- * noun fits and it gets the honest general one.
- */
-export function nearbyNoun(phase: string | null | undefined): string {
-  const text = (phase ?? '').trim().toLowerCase();
-  if (text === 'all-through') return 'all-through schools';
-  if (text === '16 plus') return 'schools and colleges';
-  if (text.includes('secondary')) return 'secondary schools';
-  if (text.includes('primary')) return 'primary schools';
-  return 'schools';
-}
-
 function metricLabel(key: string): string {
   return key === 'attainment_8_score' ? 'Attainment 8' : 'Reading, writing & maths';
 }
@@ -65,25 +45,16 @@ function formatMetric(value: number | null, key: string): string {
 
 export function NearbySchoolsSection({
   urn,
-  schoolName,
-  phase,
   thisMetricValue,
   nearby,
 }: {
   urn: number;
-  schoolName: string;
-  /** The school's own GIAS phase, not the template it renders with. */
-  phase: string | null | undefined;
   thisMetricValue: number | null;
   nearby?: NearbySchool[] | null;
 }) {
   if (!shouldRenderNearby(nearby)) return null;
   const schools = nearby as NearbySchool[];
-
-  // One card matched on phase alone, so the section may not claim the set
-  // shares an intake with this school.
   const metricKey = schools[0].metric_key;
-  const noun = nearbyNoun(phase);
 
   return (
     <Section id="nearby">
@@ -91,12 +62,9 @@ export function NearbySchoolsSection({
         count={schools.length}
         labelledBy="nearby-schools-heading"
         header={
-          <div>
-            <h2 id="nearby-schools-heading" className={styles.heading}>
-              Other schools nearby
-            </h2>
-            <p className={styles.lede}>{`Other ${noun} near ${schoolName}.`}</p>
-          </div>
+          <h2 id="nearby-schools-heading" className={styles.heading}>
+            Other schools nearby
+          </h2>
         }
       >
         {schools.map((school) => (

nextjs-app/components/school/PrimarySchoolSections.tsx

@@ -154,8 +154,6 @@ export function PrimarySchoolSections({
       {/* Last: it is where the reader goes next, not part of this school. */}
       <NearbySchoolsSection
         urn={schoolInfo.urn}
-        schoolName={schoolInfo.school_name}
-        phase={schoolInfo.phase}
         thisMetricValue={flags.latestResults?.rwm_expected_pct ?? null}
         nearby={nearbySchools}
       />

nextjs-app/components/school/SecondarySchoolSections.tsx

@@ -148,8 +148,6 @@ export function SecondarySchoolSections({
       {/* Last: it is where the reader goes next, not part of this school. */}
       <NearbySchoolsSection
         urn={schoolInfo.urn}
-        schoolName={schoolInfo.school_name}
-        phase={schoolInfo.phase}
         thisMetricValue={flags.latestResults?.attainment_8_score ?? null}
         nearby={nearbySchools}
       />

pipeline/plugins/extractors/tap-uk-gias/tap_uk_gias/gias_csv.py

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-"""Read a GIAS extract from the raw bytes of the download.
-
-GIAS writes its CSVs in Windows-1252 and sends no charset, so `resp.text`
-leaves requests to guess the codec. On 3 Oct 2026 it guessed windows-1250 and
-"à" became "ŕ". Decode the bytes ourselves instead.
-"""
-
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-import io
-
-import pandas as pd
-
-GIAS_ENCODING = "cp1252"
-
-
-def read_gias_csv(content: bytes, logger=None) -> pd.DataFrame:
-    """Every column as a string; a blank cell stays ''."""
-    # Windows-1252 leaves five bytes undefined. One stray byte must not stop
-    # the daily refresh of every school, so it becomes U+FFFD and is logged.
-    text = content.decode(GIAS_ENCODING, errors="replace")
-    undecodable = text.count("�")
-    if undecodable and logger is not None:
-        logger.warning("%d byte(s) in the GIAS extract could not be decoded as %s",
-                       undecodable, GIAS_ENCODING)
-    return pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(text), dtype=str, keep_default_na=False)

pipeline/plugins/extractors/tap-uk-gias/tap_uk_gias/tap.py

@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ from datetime import date, timedelta
 from singer_sdk import Stream, Tap
 from singer_sdk import typing as th
 
-from tap_uk_gias.gias_csv import read_gias_csv
-
 GIAS_URL_TEMPLATE = (
     "https://ea-edubase-api-prod.azurewebsites.net"
     "/edubase/downloads/public/edubasealldata{date}.csv"
@@ -76,6 +74,9 @@ class GIASEstablishmentsStream(Stream):
 
     def get_records(self, context):
         """Download GIAS CSV and yield rows."""
+        import io
+
+        import pandas as pd
         import requests
 
         today = date.today()
@@ -93,7 +94,12 @@ class GIASEstablishmentsStream(Stream):
 
         resp.raise_for_status()
 
-        df = read_gias_csv(resp.content, self.logger)
+        df = pd.read_csv(
+            io.StringIO(resp.text),
+            encoding="latin-1",
+            dtype=str,
+            keep_default_na=False,
+        )
 
         for _, row in df.iterrows():
             record = row.to_dict()
@@ -120,6 +126,9 @@ class GIASLinksStream(Stream):
 
     def get_records(self, context):
         """Download GIAS links CSV and yield rows."""
+        import io
+
+        import pandas as pd
         import requests
 
         today = date.today()
@@ -137,7 +146,12 @@ class GIASLinksStream(Stream):
 
         resp.raise_for_status()
 
-        df = read_gias_csv(resp.content, self.logger)
+        df = pd.read_csv(
+            io.StringIO(resp.text),
+            encoding="latin-1",
+            dtype=str,
+            keep_default_na=False,
+        )
 
         for _, row in df.iterrows():
             record = row.to_dict()

pipeline/tests/test_gias_encoding.py

@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-"""GIAS publishes its extracts in Windows-1252 and declares no charset.
-
-The tap used to hand pandas `resp.text`, so requests guessed the codec.
-On 3 Oct 2026 it guessed windows-1250, and "St Thomas à Becket" was stored
-as "St Thomas ŕ Becket". The `encoding=` passed to read_csv did nothing,
-because the text was already decoded.
-"""
-import importlib.util
-import logging
-from pathlib import Path
-
-import pytest
-
-MODULE = (Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / 'plugins' / 'extractors' / 'tap-uk-gias'
-          / 'tap_uk_gias' / 'gias_csv.py')
-
-
-@pytest.fixture
-def gias_csv():
-    spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location('gias_csv', MODULE)
-    module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
-    spec.loader.exec_module(module)
-    return module
-
-
-# Byte for byte as GIAS writes it: 0xE0 à, 0x92 ’, 0xE9 é, 0xB0 °, 0xE7 ç.
-EXTRACT = (
-    b'"URN","EstablishmentName","HeadLastName"\r\n'
-    b'"138950","St Thomas \xe0 Becket Catholic Secondary School","Smith"\r\n'
-    b'"100000","The Dean and Chapter of St Paul\x92s Cathedral","Pr\xe9vert"\r\n'
-    b'"140677","North Star 180\xb0","Fran\xe7ois"\r\n'
-    b'"100001","No head recorded",""\r\n'
-)
-
-
-def test_names_decode_as_windows_1252(gias_csv):
-    df = gias_csv.read_gias_csv(EXTRACT)
-    assert list(df['EstablishmentName']) == [
-        'St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School',
-        'The Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral',
-        'North Star 180°',
-        'No head recorded',
-    ]
-    assert list(df['HeadLastName']) == ['Smith', 'Prévert', 'François', '']
-
-
-def test_the_codec_requests_guessed_is_not_used(gias_csv):
-    # What the tap stored on 3 Oct: the same bytes read as windows-1250.
-    assert 'ŕ' in EXTRACT.decode('cp1250')
-    names = ' '.join(gias_csv.read_gias_csv(EXTRACT)['EstablishmentName'])
-    assert 'ŕ' not in names
-
-
-def test_values_stay_strings(gias_csv):
-    df = gias_csv.read_gias_csv(EXTRACT)
-    assert df.loc[0, 'URN'] == '138950'
-
-
-def test_a_byte_windows_1252_leaves_undefined_does_not_stop_the_load(gias_csv, caplog):
-    # 0x81 has no Windows-1252 character. One odd name must not block the daily
-    # refresh of every school, but it must be visible in the log.
-    extract = b'"URN","EstablishmentName"\r\n"100002","Odd \x81 Name"\r\n'
-    with caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING):
-        df = gias_csv.read_gias_csv(extract, logger=logging.getLogger('gias'))
-    assert df.loc[0, 'EstablishmentName'] == 'Odd � Name'
-    assert 'could not be decoded' in caplog.text