.gitignore

@@ -5,3 +5,6 @@ __pycache__/
 pipeline/transform/target/
 pipeline/transform/logs/
 pipeline/transform/.user.yml
+
+# Playwright MCP scratch output (screenshots, console logs, page snapshots)
+.playwright-mcp/

backend/app.py

@@ -632,6 +632,7 @@ async def get_school_details(request: Request, urn: int):
         "census": supplementary.get("census"),
         "admissions": supplementary.get("admissions"),
         "admissions_history": supplementary.get("admissions_history") or [],
+        "admission_distance": supplementary.get("admission_distance"),
         "sen_detail": supplementary.get("sen_detail"),
         "phonics": supplementary.get("phonics"),
         "deprivation": supplementary.get("deprivation"),

backend/data_loader.py

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from .config import settings
 from .database import SessionLocal, engine
 from .models import (
     DimSchool, DimLocation, KS2Performance,
-    FactOfstedInspection, FactAdmissions,
+    FactOfstedInspection, FactAdmissions, FactAdmissionDistance,
     FactDeprivation, FactFinance, FactPupilCharacteristics,
 )
 from .ofsted_codes import ofsted_page_url, report_card_labels
@@ -723,6 +723,17 @@ def _admissions_row_dict(a) -> dict:
     }
 
 
+def _admission_distance_dict(d) -> dict:
+    """Serialize one fact_admission_distance row for API responses."""
+    return {
+        "year": d.year,
+        "distance_m": d.distance_m,
+        "route_count": d.route_count,
+        "la_name": d.la_name,
+        "distance_unit_raw": d.distance_unit_raw,
+    }
+
+
 def _census_dict(pc) -> dict:
     return {
         "year": pc.year,
@@ -759,6 +770,7 @@ def _empty_supplementary() -> dict:
         "census": None,
         "admissions": None,
         "admissions_history": [],
+        "admission_distance": None,
         "sen_detail": None,
         "phonics": None,
         "deprivation": None,
@@ -837,6 +849,27 @@ def get_supplementary_data_batch(db: Session, urns: list[int]) -> dict:
             result[urn]["admissions"] = rows_for_urn[-1] if rows_for_urn else None
     _safe(_admissions)
 
+    # Last distance offered — latest year per URN.
+    #
+    # Only the most recent year is served. Coverage is ragged (a school may
+    # have 2021 and 2026 but nothing between), so a history array would invite
+    # a trend line drawn through gaps that are absences of publication rather
+    # than absences of a cut-off.
+    def _admission_distance():
+        rows = (
+            db.query(FactAdmissionDistance)
+            .filter(FactAdmissionDistance.urn.in_(urns))
+            .order_by(FactAdmissionDistance.urn, FactAdmissionDistance.year.desc())
+            .all()
+        )
+        seen = set()
+        for d in rows:
+            if d.urn in seen:
+                continue
+            seen.add(d.urn)
+            result[d.urn]["admission_distance"] = _admission_distance_dict(d)
+    _safe(_admission_distance)
+
     # Deprivation — one row per URN.
     def _deprivation():
         rows = (

backend/models.py

@@ -188,6 +188,37 @@ class FactAdmissions(Base):
     admissions_policy = Column(String(100))
 
 
+class FactAdmissionDistance(Base):
+    """Last distance offered — one row per URN per year.
+
+    Separate from FactAdmissions because the source is separate: EES publishes
+    admissions for the whole country, whereas cut-off distances exist only for
+    the local authorities that choose to publish them (57 at the time of
+    writing), and the two refresh on unrelated timetables.
+    """
+    __tablename__ = "fact_admission_distance"
+    __table_args__ = (
+        Index("ix_admission_distance_urn_year", "urn", "year"),
+        MARTS,
+    )
+
+    urn = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
+    year = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
+    # Straight-line distance in metres from the school to the last home offered
+    # a place that year.
+    distance_m = Column(Float)
+    # How many admission routes (ability bands, separate reception/junior
+    # intakes) were collapsed into distance_m. >1 means the figure is the
+    # furthest of several and the page must say so.
+    route_count = Column(Integer)
+    la_code = Column(Integer)
+    la_name = Column(String(100))
+    # The unit the council published in, so the page can lead with the unit a
+    # parent was given rather than always converting.
+    distance_unit_raw = Column(String(20))
+    source_file = Column(Text)
+
+
 class FactPupilCharacteristics(Base):
     """School pupil composition from EES census — one row per URN per year."""
     __tablename__ = "fact_pupil_characteristics"

backend/tests/test_supplementary_batch.py

@@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ def _adm_row(urn, year):
     )
 
 
+def _dist_row(urn, year, distance_m, route_count=1):
+    return types.SimpleNamespace(
+        urn=urn, year=year, distance_m=distance_m, route_count=route_count,
+        la_name="Camden", distance_unit_raw="miles", source_file="camden/guide.pdf",
+    )
+
+
 def test_one_query_per_table_and_latest_row_per_urn():
     rows = {
         # URN 1 has two Ofsted rows; the batch must keep the most recent (2023).
@@ -78,6 +85,14 @@ def test_one_query_per_table_and_latest_row_per_urn():
             _ofsted_row(2, "2021-06-01", 1),
         ],
         "FactAdmissions": [_adm_row(1, 202526), _adm_row(1, 202627), _adm_row(2, 202627)],
+        # URN 1 has three years of cut-offs; only the most recent is served.
+        # Deliberately not in year order — the ordering is the query's job.
+        "FactAdmissionDistance": [
+            _dist_row(1, 2026, 529.47),
+            _dist_row(1, 2024, 772.49),
+            _dist_row(1, 2025, 1421.05),
+            _dist_row(2, 2023, 2029.38, route_count=4),
+        ],
         "FactPupilCharacteristics": [],
         "FactDeprivation": [],
         "FactFinance": [],
@@ -85,10 +100,10 @@ def test_one_query_per_table_and_latest_row_per_urn():
     session = _FakeSession(rows)
     out = get_supplementary_data_batch(session, [1, 2])
 
-    # Exactly one query per table — five total, regardless of two URNs.
+    # Exactly one query per table — six total, regardless of two URNs.
     assert sorted(session.queries) == [
-        "FactAdmissions", "FactDeprivation", "FactFinance",
+        "FactAdmissionDistance", "FactAdmissions", "FactDeprivation",
-        "FactOfstedInspection", "FactPupilCharacteristics",
+        "FactFinance", "FactOfstedInspection", "FactPupilCharacteristics",
     ]
 
     # Latest Ofsted kept per URN
@@ -100,6 +115,14 @@ def test_one_query_per_table_and_latest_row_per_urn():
     assert out[1]["admissions"]["year"] == 202627
     assert out[2]["admissions_history"] == [{**out[2]["admissions_history"][0]}]
 
+    # Cut-off distance: latest year only, per URN. Coverage is ragged, so
+    # serving anything but the newest would show a parent a stale figure.
+    assert out[1]["admission_distance"]["year"] == 2026
+    assert out[1]["admission_distance"]["distance_m"] == 529.47
+    # route_count travels with the figure — the page needs it to say the
+    # distance is the furthest of several bands rather than the only one.
+    assert out[2]["admission_distance"]["route_count"] == 4
+
     # Empty tables degrade to the null block, not a crash
     assert out[1]["census"] is None and out[1]["deprivation"] is None
 
@@ -109,3 +132,4 @@ def test_single_wrapper_matches_batch(monkeypatch):
     single = data_loader.get_supplementary_data(session, 5)
     assert single["ofsted"]["overall_effectiveness"] == 2
     assert single["admissions_history"] == []
+    assert single["admission_distance"] is None

e2e/tests/journeys.spec.ts

@@ -1210,3 +1210,100 @@ for (const scheme of ['light', 'dark'] as const) {
     expect(failures, `AA failures in ${scheme}:\n  ${failures.join('\n  ')}`).toEqual([]);
   });
 }
+
+// ── Last distance offered ────────────────────────────────────────────────
+//
+// Coverage is partial by nature: only 57 local authorities publish cut-off
+// distances at all, and staging may not yet hold the extract. These tests
+// therefore locate a school that HAS a figure and assert the invariants that
+// make it safe to show, rather than asserting any particular school has one.
+
+/** URNs known to be in the collected cut-off dataset, spread across LAs so a
+ *  single council's data gap cannot skip the whole check. */
+const CUTOFF_CANDIDATE_URNS = [
+  139837, 100010, 100011, 100028, 100029, 130342, // Camden
+  100458, 135587,                                 // Islington (banded)
+  101099, 100553, 102574, 100769,                 // mixed
+];
+
+async function schoolWithCutoff(page: Page) {
+  for (const urn of CUTOFF_CANDIDATE_URNS) {
+    const res = await page.request.get(`/api/schools/${urn}`);
+    if (!res.ok()) continue;
+    const body = await res.json();
+    if (body?.admission_distance?.distance_m != null) {
+      return { urn, distance: body.admission_distance, phase: body.school_info?.phase };
+    }
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+test('a published cut-off distance is shown with the year it belongs to', async ({ page }) => {
+  const found = await schoolWithCutoff(page);
+  test.skip(found === null, 'no school in the sample has a published cut-off distance yet');
+
+  await page.goto(`/school/${found!.urn}`);
+  await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+
+  const label = page.getByText(/Last distance offered/).first();
+  await expect(label).toBeVisible();
+
+  // The year is the difference between a fact and a floating number: a cut-off
+  // is the outcome of one admissions round and means nothing without it.
+  await expect(label).toContainText(`September ${found!.distance.year}`);
+
+  // And the figure itself, in the unit councils publish in.
+  await expect(page.getByText(/\d+(\.\d+)? (miles|m)\b/).first()).toBeVisible();
+});
+
+test('a cut-off distance is never shown without saying it is not a catchment', async ({ page }) => {
+  const found = await schoolWithCutoff(page);
+  test.skip(found === null, 'no school in the sample has a published cut-off distance yet');
+
+  await page.goto(`/school/${found!.urn}`);
+  await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+
+  await expect(page.getByText(/not a fixed catchment/)).toBeVisible();
+
+  // The old secondary template asserted "distance cut-off data is not
+  // available for this school" on every page, including ones whose council
+  // does publish it. Showing both at once would be a flat contradiction.
+  await expect(page.getByText(/has not published a cut-off distance/)).toHaveCount(0);
+
+  // A banded school's figure is the widest of several routes, and must say so.
+  if ((found!.distance.route_count ?? 1) > 1) {
+    await expect(page.getByText(/admission routes at this school/)).toBeVisible();
+  }
+});
+
+test('a cut-off distance opens the Admissions section in the sticky nav', async ({ page }) => {
+  // buildNavItems and the section composers gate on the same condition; when
+  // they drift the nav links to an anchor that was never rendered.
+  const found = await schoolWithCutoff(page);
+  test.skip(found === null, 'no school in the sample has a published cut-off distance yet');
+
+  await page.goto(`/school/${found!.urn}`);
+  await expect(page.locator('h1').first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+
+  await expect(page.locator('#admissions')).toHaveCount(1);
+});
+
+test('no school page shows an implausible cut-off distance', async ({ page }) => {
+  // The source carries transcription errors up to 533 miles, filtered in
+  // stg_school_distance. This asserts the filter is actually reaching the API,
+  // because a visibly absurd figure on a live page is the failure that would
+  // cost the site its credibility.
+  let checked = 0;
+  for (const urn of CUTOFF_CANDIDATE_URNS) {
+    const res = await page.request.get(`/api/schools/${urn}`);
+    if (!res.ok()) continue;
+    const d = (await res.json())?.admission_distance;
+    if (d?.distance_m == null) continue;
+    checked += 1;
+    expect(d.distance_m, `URN ${urn} cut-off outside the plausibility band`)
+      .toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(25);
+    expect(d.distance_m, `URN ${urn} cut-off outside the plausibility band`)
+      .toBeLessThanOrEqual(25000);
+  }
+  test.skip(checked === 0, 'no cut-off distances available to check yet');
+});

mockups/last-distance-offered.html

@@ -0,0 +1,591 @@
+<title>Last distance offered — detail page mockup</title>
+<style>
+  :root{
+    --bg-primary:#faf7f2; --bg-secondary:#f3ede4; --bg-card:#fff;
+    --text-primary:#1a1612; --text-secondary:#5c564d; --text-muted:#6d685f;
+    --accent-coral:#e07256; --accent-coral-dark:#b04a2e;
+    --accent-teal:#296f6f; --accent-teal-light:#3a9e9e;
+    --accent-gold:#c9a227; --accent-gold-text:#7a6800;
+    --coral-bg:rgba(224,114,86,.12); --teal-bg:rgba(45,125,125,.12); --gold-bg:rgba(201,162,39,.12);
+    --border:#e5dfd5; --shadow:0 2px 8px rgba(26,22,18,.06); --shadow-md:0 4px 20px rgba(26,22,18,.1);
+    --radius-sm:4px; --radius-md:8px; --radius-lg:16px;
+    --serif:'Playfair Display',Georgia,'Iowan Old Style',serif;
+    --sans:'DM Sans',-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',sans-serif;
+  }
+  /* Mockup is a fixed light artefact — it mirrors the live app, which is light-only. */
+  *{margin:0;padding:0;box-sizing:border-box}
+  body{font-family:var(--sans);background:var(--bg-primary);color:var(--text-primary);line-height:1.6;
+       padding:44px 20px 110px;font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums}
+  .wrap{max-width:820px;margin:0 auto;display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:0}
+
+  .pagehead h1{font-family:var(--serif);font-weight:600;font-size:clamp(26px,4vw,34px);letter-spacing:-.015em;text-wrap:balance}
+  .pagehead p{color:var(--text-secondary);margin-top:10px;font-size:15px;max-width:64ch}
+  .pagehead p + p{margin-top:8px}
+
+  .step{margin:60px 0 6px;display:flex;align-items:baseline;gap:10px;flex-wrap:wrap}
+  .step h2{font-family:var(--serif);font-size:20px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:-.01em}
+  .step .where{font-size:12px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.05em;text-transform:uppercase;color:var(--accent-teal);
+    background:var(--teal-bg);padding:3px 9px;border-radius:999px}
+  .stepdesc{color:var(--text-muted);font-size:14px;margin-bottom:18px;max-width:66ch}
+  .stepdesc code{font-family:ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,monospace;font-size:12.5px;background:var(--bg-secondary);padding:1px 5px;border-radius:var(--radius-sm)}
+
+  /* ---- card shell mirrors SchoolDetailView .card ---- */
+  .card{background:var(--bg-card);border:1px solid var(--border);border-radius:var(--radius-lg);
+        box-shadow:var(--shadow);padding:26px 26px 24px}
+  .cardhead{display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:space-between;gap:16px;flex-wrap:wrap;margin-bottom:8px}
+  .sectionTitle{font-family:var(--serif);font-weight:600;font-size:22px;letter-spacing:-.01em}
+  .sectionSub{color:var(--text-secondary);font-size:14px;margin-bottom:18px}
+
+  .seg{display:inline-flex;background:var(--bg-secondary);border-radius:999px;padding:3px;gap:2px;flex:none}
+  .seg button{appearance:none;border:none;background:none;cursor:pointer;font:inherit;font-size:13px;font-weight:600;
+    color:var(--text-muted);padding:6px 13px;border-radius:999px;white-space:nowrap;transition:background .15s,color .15s}
+  .seg button[aria-pressed="true"]{background:var(--bg-card);color:var(--text-primary);box-shadow:var(--shadow)}
+  .seg button:focus-visible{outline:2px solid var(--accent-teal);outline-offset:2px}
+
+  /* ---- tiles ---- */
+  .tiles{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fit,minmax(146px,1fr));gap:10px;margin-top:4px}
+  .tile{background:var(--bg-secondary);border-radius:var(--radius-md);padding:14px 15px 13px}
+  .tile .num{font-family:var(--serif);font-size:27px;font-weight:600;line-height:1.15;letter-spacing:-.01em;display:block}
+  .tile .num .unit{font-family:var(--sans);font-size:15px;font-weight:600;margin-left:2px}
+  .tile .num .sub{display:block;font-family:var(--sans);font-size:12.5px;font-weight:400;color:var(--text-muted);margin-top:1px}
+  .tile .lbl{display:block;font-size:12.5px;color:var(--text-secondary);margin-top:5px;line-height:1.35}
+  .tile.accent{background:var(--coral-bg)}
+  .tile.accent .num{color:var(--accent-coral-dark)}
+  .tile.newtile{background:var(--coral-bg);box-shadow:inset 0 0 0 1.5px var(--accent-coral)}
+  .tile.newtile .num{color:var(--accent-coral-dark)}
+  .newflag{display:inline-block;font-size:10px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.08em;text-transform:uppercase;
+    color:var(--accent-coral-dark);background:rgba(224,114,86,.2);padding:1px 6px;border-radius:999px;margin-bottom:6px}
+
+  /* ---- verdict banner ---- */
+  .verdict{display:flex;gap:13px;align-items:flex-start;padding:15px 17px;border-radius:var(--radius-md);margin:2px 0 20px}
+  .verdict.hard{background:var(--coral-bg)}
+  .verdict .vic{flex:none;width:22px;height:22px;border-radius:50%;display:grid;place-items:center;margin-top:1px;
+    background:var(--accent-coral-dark);color:#fff;font-size:12px;font-weight:700}
+  .verdict .vhead{font-weight:700;font-size:16.5px;letter-spacing:-.01em;color:var(--accent-coral-dark);text-wrap:balance}
+  .verdict .vsub{color:var(--text-secondary);font-size:13.5px;margin-top:3px}
+
+  /* ---- chart ---- */
+  .chartwrap{overflow-x:auto}
+  .chart{display:block;width:100%;min-width:460px;height:auto}
+  .axtxt{font-family:var(--sans);font-size:11px;fill:var(--text-muted)}
+  .ptlbl{font-family:var(--sans);font-size:12px;font-weight:700;fill:var(--accent-coral-dark)}
+  .keyrow{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:16px;margin-top:12px;font-size:12.5px;color:var(--text-secondary)}
+  .keyrow span{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:7px}
+  .kdot{width:11px;height:11px;border-radius:50%;flex:none}
+  .kdot.line{background:var(--accent-coral)}
+  .kdot.open{background:#fff;box-shadow:inset 0 0 0 2px var(--accent-teal)}
+  .kdot.gap{background:repeating-linear-gradient(90deg,var(--text-muted) 0 2px,transparent 2px 4px);border-radius:0;height:2px}
+
+  /* ---- table ---- */
+  .tblwrap{overflow-x:auto;margin-top:4px}
+  table{width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;min-width:420px}
+  thead th{text-align:right;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.04em;text-transform:uppercase;
+    color:var(--text-muted);padding:0 10px 9px;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border)}
+  thead th:first-child{text-align:left}
+  tbody td{text-align:right;padding:11px 10px;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border)}
+  tbody td:first-child{text-align:left;font-weight:600}
+  tbody tr:last-child td{border-bottom:none}
+  tbody tr.now{background:var(--bg-secondary)}
+  td.miss{color:var(--text-muted);font-weight:400}
+  .pill{display:inline-block;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;padding:2px 9px;border-radius:999px;white-space:nowrap}
+  .pill.over{background:var(--coral-bg);color:var(--accent-coral-dark)}
+  .pill.ok{background:var(--teal-bg);color:var(--accent-teal)}
+  .pill.na{background:var(--bg-secondary);color:var(--text-muted)}
+
+  /* ---- map ---- */
+  .mapfig{border-radius:var(--radius-md);overflow:hidden;border:1px solid var(--border);background:#eef2ec}
+  .mapsvg{display:block;width:100%;height:auto}
+  .maplegend{display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:14px 20px;margin-top:12px;font-size:12.5px;color:var(--text-secondary)}
+  .maplegend span{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:7px}
+  .swatch{width:14px;height:14px;border-radius:50%;flex:none}
+  .swatch.now{background:rgba(224,114,86,.18);box-shadow:inset 0 0 0 2px var(--accent-coral)}
+  .swatch.past{background:transparent;box-shadow:inset 0 0 0 1.5px rgba(176,74,46,.4)}
+  .swatch.you{background:var(--accent-teal);border-radius:2px;transform:rotate(45deg);width:11px;height:11px}
+
+  /* ---- postcode check ---- */
+  .checkbox{margin-top:20px;border-top:1px solid var(--border);padding-top:18px}
+  .checkhead{font-weight:700;font-size:15px;margin-bottom:3px}
+  .checksub{font-size:13.5px;color:var(--text-muted);margin-bottom:12px}
+  .checkform{display:flex;gap:8px;flex-wrap:wrap}
+  .checkform input{font:inherit;font-size:15px;padding:10px 13px;border:1px solid var(--border);border-radius:var(--radius-md);
+    background:var(--bg-card);color:var(--text-primary);min-width:150px;flex:1 1 150px;text-transform:uppercase}
+  .checkform input:focus-visible{outline:2px solid var(--accent-teal);outline-offset:1px;border-color:var(--accent-teal)}
+  .checkform button{font:inherit;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;padding:10px 20px;border:none;border-radius:var(--radius-md);
+    background:var(--accent-coral-dark);color:#fff;cursor:pointer;transition:background .15s}
+  .checkform button:hover{background:#9c3f26}
+  .checkform button:focus-visible{outline:2px solid var(--accent-teal);outline-offset:2px}
+  .result{margin-top:14px;background:var(--teal-bg);border-radius:var(--radius-md);padding:15px 17px}
+  .result .rhead{font-weight:700;font-size:16px;color:var(--accent-teal);letter-spacing:-.01em;text-wrap:balance}
+  .result .rsub{font-size:13.5px;color:var(--text-secondary);margin-top:4px}
+  .yearstrip{display:flex;gap:4px;margin-top:12px;flex-wrap:wrap}
+  .yr{font-size:11px;font-weight:600;padding:3px 7px;border-radius:var(--radius-sm);white-space:nowrap}
+  .yr.in{background:rgba(45,125,125,.22);color:var(--accent-teal)}
+  .yr.out{background:var(--coral-bg);color:var(--accent-coral-dark)}
+  .yr.none{background:var(--bg-secondary);color:var(--text-muted)}
+
+  /* ---- notes / disclosure ---- */
+  .note{display:flex;gap:9px;margin-top:16px;font-size:13px;color:var(--text-muted);line-height:1.55}
+  .note .i{flex:none;width:17px;height:17px;border-radius:50%;background:var(--bg-secondary);color:var(--text-muted);
+    font-size:11px;font-weight:700;display:grid;place-items:center;margin-top:2px}
+  .disclosure{margin-top:16px;border-top:1px solid var(--border);padding-top:4px}
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+  .disclosure>summary:focus-visible{outline:2px solid var(--accent-teal);outline-offset:2px;border-radius:var(--radius-sm)}
+  .disclosure .chev{transition:transform .2s ease}
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+  .disclosure .body{padding:2px 0 10px;font-size:13.5px;color:var(--text-secondary);display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:10px}
+  .disclosure .body b{color:var(--text-primary)}
+
+  /* ---- viewport stack (keeps card height stable across views) ---- */
+  .viewport{display:grid}
+  .viewport>.view{grid-area:1/1}
+  .viewport>.view[hidden]{display:block;visibility:hidden;pointer-events:none}
+
+  /* ---- edge cases ---- */
+  .cases{display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fit,minmax(250px,1fr));gap:14px}
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+  .case .body{font-size:14px;color:var(--text-secondary);line-height:1.5}
+  .case .body strong{color:var(--text-primary)}
+  .emptybox{background:var(--bg-secondary);border-radius:var(--radius-md);padding:13px 15px;font-size:13.5px;color:var(--text-secondary)}
+
+  /* ---- phone ---- */
+  .phonerow{display:flex;gap:24px;flex-wrap:wrap;align-items:flex-start}
+  .phone{width:330px;max-width:100%;border:9px solid #1a1612;border-radius:34px;overflow:hidden;box-shadow:var(--shadow-md);background:var(--bg-primary)}
+  .phonebody{padding:14px 13px 20px;display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:12px}
+  .phone .card{padding:17px 16px 16px;border-radius:var(--radius-md)}
+  .phone .sectionTitle{font-size:18px}
+  .phone .tiles{grid-template-columns:1fr 1fr;gap:8px}
+  .phone .tile{padding:11px 12px}
+  .phone .tile .num{font-size:22px}
+  .phone .chart{min-width:0}
+  .phone .chartwrap{overflow:visible}
+  .phonenote{font-size:13px;color:var(--text-muted);flex:1 1 240px;min-width:220px}
+  .phonenote h3{font-family:var(--serif);font-size:17px;color:var(--text-primary);margin-bottom:8px;font-weight:600}
+  .phonenote ul{padding-left:18px;display:flex;flex-direction:column;gap:7px}
+
+  @media (prefers-reduced-motion:reduce){*{transition:none!important;animation:none!important}}
+</style>
+
+<div class="wrap">
+
+  <div class="pagehead">
+    <h1>Last distance offered — school detail page</h1>
+    <p>Adds the final-offer cut-off distance to the existing <b>Admissions</b> card, plus a catchment
+      view on the map. Data covers one to ten years depending on the school and local authority, so every
+      screen here is built around partial coverage rather than assuming a full run.</p>
+    <p>Sample school: <b>Fairlawn Primary School</b>, Lewisham — 8 years of distance data out of 10 years of admissions data.</p>
+  </div>
+
+  <!-- ============ 1. ADMISSIONS CARD ============ -->
+  <div class="step">
+    <h2>1. A distance tile joins the admissions tiles</h2>
+    <span class="where">SchoolDetailView · #admissions</span>
+  </div>
+  <p class="stepdesc">No new section and no new nav entry — the number a parent actually asks for
+    ("how close do we need to live?") sits with the rest of the intake story. The segmented control gains a
+    third view, <code>Distance</code>.</p>
+
+  <div class="card">
+    <div class="cardhead">
+      <h2 class="sectionTitle">Admissions</h2>
+      <div class="seg" role="group" aria-label="Admissions view">
+        <button type="button" aria-pressed="true" data-view="year">This year</button>
+        <button type="button" aria-pressed="false" data-view="trend">10-year trend</button>
+        <button type="button" aria-pressed="false" data-view="dist">Distance</button>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <p class="sectionSub">Reception entry, September 2025.</p>
+
+    <div class="viewport">
+      <!-- view: this year -->
+      <div class="view" id="v-year">
+        <dl class="tiles">
+          <div class="tile">
+            <dd class="num">60</dd><dt class="lbl">Places offered</dt>
+          </div>
+          <div class="tile">
+            <dd class="num">142</dd><dt class="lbl">Wanted it first</dt>
+          </div>
+          <div class="tile accent">
+            <dd class="num">54<span class="sub">of 142 · 38%</span></dd>
+            <dt class="lbl">Got their first choice</dt>
+          </div>
+          <div class="tile newtile">
+            <span class="newflag">New</span>
+            <dd class="num">0.31<span class="unit">mi</span><span class="sub">≈ 500 m · 6 min walk</span></dd>
+            <dt class="lbl">Last distance offered</dt>
+          </div>
+        </dl>
+        <div class="note">
+          <span class="i" aria-hidden="true">i</span>
+          <span>The furthest home offered a place once siblings, faith and EHCP priority were applied.
+            It is not a fixed catchment — it moves every year with the number of applications.</span>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+
+      <!-- view: distance -->
+      <div class="view" id="v-dist" hidden>
+        <div class="verdict hard">
+          <span class="vic" aria-hidden="true">↓</span>
+          <div>
+            <div class="vhead">The catchment has halved in nine years</div>
+            <div class="vsub">0.62 mi in 2016 → 0.31 mi in 2025. Four of the last five years tightened.</div>
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="chartwrap">
+          <svg class="chart" viewBox="0 0 700 250" role="img"
+               aria-label="Last distance offered by year: 0.62 miles in 2016, 0.55 in 2017, not published in 2018, 0.48 in 2019, 0.51 in 2020, 0.44 in 2021, no cut-off needed in 2022, 0.39 in 2023, 0.35 in 2024, 0.31 in 2025.">
+            <!-- grid -->
+            <g stroke="#e5dfd5" stroke-width="1">
+              <line x1="46" y1="30" x2="686" y2="30"/>
+              <line x1="46" y1="80" x2="686" y2="80"/>
+              <line x1="46" y1="130" x2="686" y2="130"/>
+              <line x1="46" y1="180" x2="686" y2="180"/>
+            </g>
+            <line x1="46" y1="206" x2="686" y2="206" stroke="#d8d0c3" stroke-width="1.5"/>
+            <g class="axtxt" text-anchor="end">
+              <text x="38" y="34">0.8</text><text x="38" y="84">0.6</text>
+              <text x="38" y="134">0.4</text><text x="38" y="184">0.2</text>
+            </g>
+            <text class="axtxt" x="46" y="16" text-anchor="start">miles</text>
+
+            <!-- gap segments (dashed = no figure published) -->
+            <g fill="none" stroke="#6d685f" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-dasharray="4 4" opacity=".55">
+              <path d="M114 92 L182 110"/>
+              <path d="M318 122 L386 132.5"/>
+            </g>
+            <!-- solid series -->
+            <polyline fill="none" stroke="#e07256" stroke-width="2.5" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-linecap="round"
+                      points="46,75 114,92"/>
+            <polyline fill="none" stroke="#e07256" stroke-width="2.5" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-linecap="round"
+                      points="182,110 250,102 318,122"/>
+            <polyline fill="none" stroke="#e07256" stroke-width="2.5" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-linecap="round"
+                      points="386,132.5 454,142.5 522,152.5"/>
+
+            <!-- points -->
+            <g fill="#e07256" stroke="#fff" stroke-width="2">
+              <circle cx="46" cy="75" r="5"/><circle cx="114" cy="92" r="5"/>
+              <circle cx="182" cy="110" r="5"/><circle cx="250" cy="102" r="5"/>
+              <circle cx="318" cy="122" r="5"/><circle cx="386" cy="132.5" r="5"/>
+              <circle cx="454" cy="142.5" r="5"/>
+            </g>
+            <!-- latest, emphasised -->
+            <circle cx="522" cy="152.5" r="7.5" fill="#b04a2e" stroke="#fff" stroke-width="2.5"/>
+
+            <!-- "no cut-off needed" marker, 2022 -->
+            <circle cx="352" cy="46" r="6" fill="#fff" stroke="#296f6f" stroke-width="2.5"/>
+            <text class="axtxt" x="352" y="34" text-anchor="middle" fill="#296f6f" font-weight="600">all offered</text>
+            <line x1="352" y1="54" x2="352" y2="196" stroke="#296f6f" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-dasharray="3 4" opacity=".45"/>
+
+            <!-- endpoint labels -->
+            <text class="ptlbl" x="46" y="63" text-anchor="start">0.62</text>
+            <text class="ptlbl" x="530" y="157" text-anchor="start">0.31 mi</text>
+
+            <!-- year axis -->
+            <g class="axtxt" text-anchor="middle">
+              <text x="46"  y="226">2016</text><text x="114" y="226">2017</text>
+              <text x="182" y="226">2019</text><text x="250" y="226">2020</text>
+              <text x="318" y="226">2021</text><text x="386" y="226">2023</text>
+              <text x="454" y="226">2024</text><text x="522" y="226">2025</text>
+            </g>
+            <text class="axtxt" x="148" y="243" text-anchor="middle" fill="#6d685f">2018 not published</text>
+            <text class="axtxt" x="352" y="243" text-anchor="middle" fill="#296f6f">2022 undersubscribed</text>
+          </svg>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="keyrow">
+          <span><i class="kdot line" aria-hidden="true"></i>Distance of the last place offered</span>
+          <span><i class="kdot open" aria-hidden="true"></i>No cut-off needed — every applicant offered</span>
+          <span><i class="kdot gap" aria-hidden="true"></i>Not published by the local authority</span>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="tblwrap" style="margin-top:22px">
+          <table>
+            <caption class="sr-only" style="position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidden;clip:rect(0 0 0 0)">Last distance offered by year</caption>
+            <thead>
+              <tr><th scope="col">Year</th><th scope="col">Last distance</th><th scope="col">Places</th><th scope="col">Status</th></tr>
+            </thead>
+            <tbody>
+              <tr class="now"><td>2025</td><td>0.31 mi</td><td>60</td><td><span class="pill over">Oversubscribed</span></td></tr>
+              <tr><td>2024</td><td>0.35 mi</td><td>60</td><td><span class="pill over">Oversubscribed</span></td></tr>
+              <tr><td>2023</td><td>0.39 mi</td><td>60</td><td><span class="pill over">Oversubscribed</span></td></tr>
+              <tr><td>2022</td><td class="miss">No cut-off needed</td><td>60</td><td><span class="pill ok">All offered</span></td></tr>
+              <tr><td>2021</td><td>0.44 mi</td><td>60</td><td><span class="pill over">Oversubscribed</span></td></tr>
+              <tr><td>2020</td><td>0.51 mi</td><td>60</td><td><span class="pill over">Oversubscribed</span></td></tr>
+              <tr><td>2019</td><td>0.48 mi</td><td>60</td><td><span class="pill over">Oversubscribed</span></td></tr>
+              <tr><td>2018</td><td class="miss">—</td><td>60</td><td><span class="pill na">Not published</span></td></tr>
+              <tr><td>2017</td><td>0.55 mi</td><td>60</td><td><span class="pill over">Oversubscribed</span></td></tr>
+              <tr><td>2016</td><td>0.62 mi</td><td>60</td><td><span class="pill over">Oversubscribed</span></td></tr>
+            </tbody>
+          </table>
+        </div>
+
+        <details class="disclosure">
+          <summary><span class="chev" aria-hidden="true">›</span>What this number does and doesn't tell you</summary>
+          <div class="body">
+            <span><b>It is a result, not a rule.</b> It records how far the last successful applicant lived
+              in a given year. Move one large sibling cohort and the figure shifts.</span>
+            <span><b>Distance is the final tiebreak.</b> Children in care, EHCP places, siblings and — at faith
+              schools — the faith criteria are ranked first. A family inside the distance can still miss out.</span>
+            <span><b>Lewisham measures straight-line distance</b> from home to the school's main gate. Other
+              authorities use walking routes, which are always longer for the same home.</span>
+            <span><b>Gaps are normal.</b> An authority may not publish a figure, or the school may not have
+              needed a distance cut-off that year. Both are shown here rather than hidden.</span>
+          </div>
+        </details>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <!-- ============ 2. MAP ============ -->
+  <div class="step">
+    <h2>2. The cut-off drawn on the map</h2>
+    <span class="where">SchoolHeroMap · catchment layer</span>
+  </div>
+  <p class="stepdesc">"0.31 miles" is abstract until you see it over your own streets. The latest year is a
+    filled ring; earlier years sit behind it as hairlines, so the tightening reads instantly as a set of
+    shrinking circles. Straight-line rings only — they're an illustration of the number, not a boundary.</p>
+
+  <div class="card">
+    <div class="cardhead" style="margin-bottom:14px">
+      <h2 class="sectionTitle">Where the last place went</h2>
+      <div class="seg" role="group" aria-label="Map years">
+        <button type="button" aria-pressed="true">2025 only</button>
+        <button type="button" aria-pressed="false">Last 5 years</button>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+
+    <figure class="mapfig">
+      <svg class="mapsvg" viewBox="0 0 700 400" role="img"
+           aria-label="Map showing concentric catchment rings around Fairlawn Primary School: 0.62 miles in 2016 shrinking to 0.31 miles in 2025, with a marker for a sample home 0.24 miles away, inside the current ring.">
+        <rect width="700" height="400" fill="#eef2ec"/>
+        <!-- park -->
+        <path d="M470 20 h230 v150 h-160 q-70 -20 -70 -80 z" fill="#dfe9dc"/>
+        <!-- water -->
+        <path d="M0 330 q120 -40 250 -10 t260 -20 l190 -30 v130 H0 z" fill="#dbe6ee"/>
+        <!-- street grid -->
+        <g stroke="#fff" stroke-width="7" stroke-linecap="round" opacity=".95">
+          <path d="M-10 90 H710"/><path d="M-10 200 H710"/><path d="M-10 300 H710"/>
+          <path d="M120 -10 V410"/><path d="M300 -10 V410"/><path d="M470 -10 V410"/><path d="M620 -10 V410"/>
+        </g>
+        <g stroke="#fff" stroke-width="3.5" opacity=".8">
+          <path d="M-10 145 H710"/><path d="M-10 250 H710"/><path d="M210 -10 V410"/><path d="M385 -10 V410"/><path d="M550 -10 V410"/>
+        </g>
+        <!-- building blocks -->
+        <g fill="#e4e2dc" opacity=".85">
+          <rect x="132" y="102" width="60" height="30" rx="2"/><rect x="222" y="102" width="64" height="30" rx="2"/>
+          <rect x="132" y="212" width="60" height="26" rx="2"/><rect x="222" y="212" width="64" height="26" rx="2"/>
+          <rect x="400" y="102" width="56" height="30" rx="2"/><rect x="400" y="212" width="56" height="26" rx="2"/>
+        </g>
+
+        <!-- historic rings (hairline) -->
+        <g fill="none" stroke="#b04a2e" opacity=".38" stroke-width="1.5">
+          <circle cx="300" cy="200" r="150"/>
+          <circle cx="300" cy="200" r="126"/>
+          <circle cx="300" cy="200" r="106"/>
+          <circle cx="300" cy="200" r="90"/>
+        </g>
+        <text class="axtxt" x="300" y="44" text-anchor="middle" fill="#b04a2e" font-weight="600">2016 · 0.62 mi</text>
+        <!-- current ring -->
+        <circle cx="300" cy="200" r="75" fill="rgba(224,114,86,.18)" stroke="#e07256" stroke-width="3"/>
+        <text class="axtxt" x="300" y="118" text-anchor="middle" fill="#b04a2e" font-weight="700" font-size="12.5">2025 · 0.31 mi</text>
+
+        <!-- school pin -->
+        <circle cx="300" cy="200" r="11" fill="#b04a2e" stroke="#fff" stroke-width="3"/>
+        <text class="axtxt" x="300" y="232" text-anchor="middle" fill="#1a1612" font-weight="700" font-size="12">Fairlawn Primary</text>
+
+        <!-- your home -->
+        <g transform="translate(246,158)">
+          <rect x="-7" y="-7" width="14" height="14" rx="2" fill="#296f6f" stroke="#fff" stroke-width="2.5" transform="rotate(45)"/>
+        </g>
+        <text class="axtxt" x="246" y="140" text-anchor="middle" fill="#296f6f" font-weight="700" font-size="12">Your home · 0.24 mi</text>
+      </svg>
+    </figure>
+
+    <div class="maplegend">
+      <span><i class="swatch now" aria-hidden="true"></i>2025 cut-off — 0.31 mi</span>
+      <span><i class="swatch past" aria-hidden="true"></i>Earlier years, 2016–2024</span>
+      <span><i class="swatch you" aria-hidden="true"></i>Your home</span>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="checkbox">
+      <div class="checkhead">Would you have got in?</div>
+      <p class="checksub">We measure straight-line distance from your postcode, the same way Lewisham does.</p>
+      <form class="checkform" onsubmit="return false">
+        <label class="sr-only" for="pc" style="position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidden;clip:rect(0 0 0 0)">Your postcode</label>
+        <input id="pc" type="text" value="SE23 3NA" autocomplete="postal-code" spellcheck="false">
+        <button type="submit">Check</button>
+      </form>
+
+      <div class="result">
+        <div class="rhead">0.24 miles away — inside the cut-off in all 8 years on record</div>
+        <div class="rsub">That's 0.07 miles of headroom on 2025, the tightest year so far. 2018 has no published
+          figure, and in 2022 every applicant was offered a place.</div>
+        <div class="yearstrip">
+          <span class="yr in">2016 ✓</span>
+          <span class="yr in">2017 ✓</span>
+          <span class="yr none">2018 –</span>
+          <span class="yr in">2019 ✓</span>
+          <span class="yr in">2020 ✓</span>
+          <span class="yr in">2021 ✓</span>
+          <span class="yr in">2022 ✓</span>
+          <span class="yr in">2023 ✓</span>
+          <span class="yr in">2024 ✓</span>
+          <span class="yr in">2025 ✓</span>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+
+      <div class="note">
+        <span class="i" aria-hidden="true">!</span>
+        <span>An indication only. Distance is applied after siblings, faith and EHCP priority, and next year's
+          cut-off depends on next year's applicants. Always check the school's own admissions policy.</span>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <!-- ============ 3. COVERAGE STATES ============ -->
+  <div class="step">
+    <h2>3. Coverage states</h2>
+    <span class="where">Partial data is the normal case</span>
+  </div>
+  <p class="stepdesc">Coverage runs from ten years to none. Each state says something true rather than
+    falling back on a generic "no data" — the reason a figure is absent is itself useful to a parent.</p>
+
+  <div class="cases">
+    <div class="case">
+      <h3>4+ years</h3>
+      <div class="body">Full treatment: verdict banner, chart, table, map rings. <strong>The verdict line only
+        appears with 4+ points</strong> — below that a two-year swing isn't a trend.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="case">
+      <h3>2–3 years</h3>
+      <div class="body">Tile and table, no verdict banner, single map ring for the latest year.
+        <strong>"Only 3 years available"</strong> sits under the table.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="case">
+      <h3>1 year</h3>
+      <div class="body">Tile plus one map ring. No <code>Distance</code> tab — the tile and its footnote are
+        the whole story.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="case">
+      <h3>Never oversubscribed</h3>
+      <div class="body" style="margin-bottom:10px">Not missing data — good news, and it should read that way.</div>
+      <div class="emptybox"><b style="color:var(--accent-teal)">Everyone who applied was offered a place</b>
+        in each of the last 6 years, so no distance cut-off was needed.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="case">
+      <h3>No data at all</h3>
+      <div class="body" style="margin-bottom:10px">Replaces the current placeholder text in
+        <code>SecondarySchoolDetailView.tsx:780</code>.</div>
+      <div class="emptybox">Lewisham hasn't published cut-off distances for this school.
+        <a href="#" style="color:var(--accent-teal);font-weight:600">The council's admissions page</a> may list them.</div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="case">
+      <h3>Not distance-ranked</h3>
+      <div class="body" style="margin-bottom:10px">Grammar and some faith schools rank on test score or faith
+        practice, so a distance figure would mislead.</div>
+      <div class="emptybox">Places here are ranked by the entrance test, not by distance.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+  <!-- ============ 4. MOBILE ============ -->
+  <div class="step">
+    <h2>4. Mobile</h2>
+    <span class="where">≤ 640 px</span>
+  </div>
+  <p class="stepdesc">Tiles fall to two columns and the distance tile takes the full width beneath them, so the
+    headline number survives the reflow. The chart drops its table on mobile behind a "See all years" disclosure.</p>
+
+  <div class="phonerow">
+    <div class="phone">
+      <div class="phonebody">
+        <div class="card">
+          <div class="cardhead" style="margin-bottom:6px">
+            <h2 class="sectionTitle">Admissions</h2>
+          </div>
+          <p class="sectionSub" style="font-size:13px;margin-bottom:12px">Reception, Sept 2025</p>
+          <div class="seg" style="margin-bottom:14px">
+            <button type="button" aria-pressed="true">Year</button>
+            <button type="button" aria-pressed="false">Trend</button>
+            <button type="button" aria-pressed="false">Distance</button>
+          </div>
+          <dl class="tiles">
+            <div class="tile"><dd class="num">60</dd><dt class="lbl">Places offered</dt></div>
+            <div class="tile"><dd class="num">142</dd><dt class="lbl">Wanted it first</dt></div>
+          </dl>
+          <div class="tile newtile" style="margin-top:8px">
+            <span class="newflag">New</span>
+            <dd class="num" style="font-size:26px">0.31<span class="unit">mi</span>
+              <span class="sub">≈ 500 m · 6 min walk</span></dd>
+            <dt class="lbl">Last distance offered, 2025</dt>
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="card">
+          <h2 class="sectionTitle" style="margin-bottom:12px">Distance</h2>
+          <div class="verdict hard" style="padding:12px 13px;margin:0 0 14px">
+            <span class="vic" aria-hidden="true">↓</span>
+            <div><div class="vhead" style="font-size:15px">Halved in nine years</div>
+              <div class="vsub" style="font-size:12.5px">0.62 mi → 0.31 mi</div></div>
+          </div>
+          <div class="chartwrap">
+            <svg class="chart" viewBox="0 0 300 150" role="img" aria-label="Last distance offered falling from 0.62 miles in 2016 to 0.31 miles in 2025.">
+              <g stroke="#e5dfd5" stroke-width="1">
+                <line x1="26" y1="20" x2="292" y2="20"/><line x1="26" y1="62" x2="292" y2="62"/><line x1="26" y1="104" x2="292" y2="104"/>
+              </g>
+              <g class="axtxt" text-anchor="end" font-size="9">
+                <text x="21" y="23">0.8</text><text x="21" y="65">0.5</text><text x="21" y="107">0.2</text>
+              </g>
+              <path d="M26 55 L64 69" fill="none" stroke="#e07256" stroke-width="2.5" stroke-linecap="round"/>
+              <path d="M64 69 L102 84" fill="none" stroke="#6d685f" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-dasharray="3 3" opacity=".55"/>
+              <path d="M102 84 L140 78 L178 95" fill="none" stroke="#e07256" stroke-width="2.5" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-linecap="round"/>
+              <path d="M178 95 L216 109" fill="none" stroke="#6d685f" stroke-width="1.5" stroke-dasharray="3 3" opacity=".55"/>
+              <path d="M216 109 L254 116 L280 120" fill="none" stroke="#e07256" stroke-width="2.5" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-linecap="round"/>
+              <g fill="#e07256" stroke="#fff" stroke-width="1.8">
+                <circle cx="26" cy="55" r="4"/><circle cx="64" cy="69" r="4"/><circle cx="102" cy="84" r="4"/>
+                <circle cx="140" cy="78" r="4"/><circle cx="178" cy="95" r="4"/><circle cx="216" cy="109" r="4"/><circle cx="254" cy="116" r="4"/>
+              </g>
+              <circle cx="280" cy="120" r="6" fill="#b04a2e" stroke="#fff" stroke-width="2"/>
+              <circle cx="197" cy="30" r="4.5" fill="#fff" stroke="#296f6f" stroke-width="2"/>
+              <g class="axtxt" font-size="9" text-anchor="middle">
+                <text x="26" y="132">'16</text><text x="140" y="132">'20</text><text x="280" y="132">'25</text>
+              </g>
+              <text class="ptlbl" x="280" y="140" text-anchor="middle" font-size="11">0.31 mi</text>
+            </svg>
+          </div>
+          <details class="disclosure" style="margin-top:10px">
+            <summary style="font-size:13px"><span class="chev" aria-hidden="true">›</span>See all 10 years</summary>
+          </details>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="phonenote">
+      <h3>Mobile decisions</h3>
+      <ul>
+        <li>Distance tile spans both columns — the number a parent came for shouldn't be a half-width cell.</li>
+        <li>Chart keeps every year but labels only first, middle and last; the endpoint stays labelled.</li>
+        <li>Year-by-year table collapses into a disclosure rather than forcing a horizontal scroll.</li>
+        <li>Map rings reuse the existing full-screen hero map sheet, opened from the tile.</li>
+      </ul>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+
+</div>
+
+<script>
+  // Segmented control on the admissions card swaps the stacked views.
+  document.querySelectorAll('.seg button[data-view]').forEach(function (btn) {
+    btn.addEventListener('click', function () {
+      var group = btn.closest('.seg');
+      group.querySelectorAll('button').forEach(function (b) { b.setAttribute('aria-pressed', String(b === btn)); });
+      var target = btn.dataset.view === 'dist' ? 'v-dist' : 'v-year';
+      ['v-year', 'v-dist'].forEach(function (id) {
+        document.getElementById(id).hidden = id !== target;
+      });
+    });
+  });
+</script>

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

@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+/**
+ * Last distance offered, rendered on both detail templates.
+ *
+ * The figure is the one number on these pages that a parent may act on — it is
+ * easy to read as "we live inside the catchment, we will get a place". These
+ * tests pin the things that stop it being read that way: the year is always
+ * present, the caveat is always present, and the blanket "not available"
+ * sentence appears only when it is actually true.
+ */
+
+import { screen } from '@testing-library/react';
+import { renderSchoolDetail, renderSecondarySchoolDetail } from '../support/renderSchoolDetail';
+import { primaryFixture, secondaryFixture } from '../support/schoolFixtures';
+import type { SchoolAdmissionDistance } from '@/lib/types';
+
+const cutoff = (over: Partial<SchoolAdmissionDistance> = {}): SchoolAdmissionDistance => ({
+  year: 2025,
+  distance_m: 500,
+  route_count: 1,
+  la_name: 'Camden',
+  distance_unit_raw: 'miles',
+  ...over,
+});
+
+describe('primary detail page', () => {
+  it('shows the figure with the year it belongs to', () => {
+    renderSchoolDetail({ ...primaryFixture, admissionDistance: cutoff({ distance_m: 772.49, year: 2024 }) });
+
+    expect(screen.getByText('0.48 miles')).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.getByText(/Last distance offered/)).toHaveTextContent('September 2024');
+  });
+
+  it('never shows the figure without saying it is not a catchment', () => {
+    renderSchoolDetail({ ...primaryFixture, admissionDistance: cutoff() });
+
+    expect(screen.getByText(/not a fixed catchment/)).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.getByText(/moves every year/)).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('flags that a banded school\'s figure is the widest of several routes', () => {
+    renderSchoolDetail({ ...primaryFixture, admissionDistance: cutoff({ route_count: 4 }) });
+
+    expect(screen.getByText(/4 admission routes/)).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('renders nothing distance-related when the LA publishes none', () => {
+    renderSchoolDetail({ ...primaryFixture, admissionDistance: null });
+
+    expect(screen.queryByText(/Last distance offered/)).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.queryByText(/not a fixed catchment/)).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('carries the figure even with no EES admissions row', () => {
+    // The two sources are independent; this school has a cut-off and no
+    // admissions figures. Before this feature the section did not render at all.
+    renderSchoolDetail({
+      ...primaryFixture,
+      admissions: null,
+      admissionsHistory: [],
+      admissionDistance: cutoff({ distance_m: 1421.05 }),
+    });
+
+    expect(screen.getByText('0.88 miles')).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('secondary detail page', () => {
+  it('shows the figure with the year it belongs to', () => {
+    renderSecondarySchoolDetail({ ...secondaryFixture, admissionDistance: cutoff({ distance_m: 3472.96 }) });
+
+    expect(screen.getByText('2.16 miles')).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.getByText(/Last distance offered/)).toHaveTextContent('September 2025');
+  });
+
+  it('drops the blanket "not available" line once a distance exists', () => {
+    renderSecondarySchoolDetail({ ...secondaryFixture, admissionDistance: cutoff() });
+
+    expect(screen.queryByText(/has not published a cut-off distance/)).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.getByText(/not a fixed catchment/)).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it('names the authority that would hold the data when there is none', () => {
+    // The old copy asserted "Historical distance cut-off data is not available
+    // for this school" on every secondary page, including the ones whose
+    // council does publish it.
+    renderSecondarySchoolDetail({ ...secondaryFixture, admissionDistance: null });
+
+    expect(screen.getByText(/has not published a cut-off distance/)).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});

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

@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+/**
+ * Last distance offered — formatting and the caveats attached to the figure.
+ *
+ * The assertions about the route note and the year are not cosmetic. A cut-off
+ * shown without its year, or a banded school's widest cut-off shown as if it
+ * were the only one, tells a parent something false about their chances of a
+ * place — so both are pinned here rather than left to the component.
+ */
+
+import { formatCutoffDistance, formatEntryYear } from '@/lib/utils';
+import { describeCutoff } from '@/components/school/lastDistanceOffered';
+import type { SchoolAdmissionDistance } from '@/lib/types';
+
+const distance = (over: Partial<SchoolAdmissionDistance> = {}): SchoolAdmissionDistance => ({
+  year: 2025,
+  distance_m: 500,
+  route_count: 1,
+  la_name: 'Camden',
+  distance_unit_raw: 'miles',
+  ...over,
+});
+
+describe('formatCutoffDistance', () => {
+  it('leads with miles, the unit councils publish in', () => {
+    expect(formatCutoffDistance(500)).toEqual({ primary: '0.31 miles', secondary: '500 m' });
+    expect(formatCutoffDistance(1609.344)).toEqual({ primary: '1.00 miles', secondary: '1.6 km' });
+  });
+
+  it('switches to kilometres for the support figure above a kilometre', () => {
+    expect(formatCutoffDistance(3472.96)!.secondary).toBe('3.5 km');
+  });
+
+  it('leads with metres below 100 m, where a miles figure carries nothing', () => {
+    expect(formatCutoffDistance(27)).toEqual({ primary: '27 m', secondary: '0.02 miles' });
+  });
+
+  it('returns null rather than a zero cut-off', () => {
+    // 0.0 miles appears in the source where a school filled on a higher
+    // criterion. Rendered as "0.00 miles" it would read as the opposite.
+    expect(formatCutoffDistance(0)).toBeNull();
+    expect(formatCutoffDistance(null)).toBeNull();
+    expect(formatCutoffDistance(undefined)).toBeNull();
+    expect(formatCutoffDistance(Number.NaN)).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
+describe('formatEntryYear', () => {
+  it('names the intake, not the academic year', () => {
+    // formatAcademicYear would render 2025 as "2025/26", which reads as a
+    // school year rather than the September a child started.
+    expect(formatEntryYear(2025)).toBe('September 2025');
+    expect(formatEntryYear(null)).toBe('');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('describeCutoff', () => {
+  it('always carries the entry year alongside the figure', () => {
+    const d = describeCutoff(distance({ distance_m: 772.49, year: 2024 }));
+    expect(d).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(d!.primary).toBe('0.48 miles');
+    expect(d!.entryYear).toBe('September 2024');
+  });
+
+  it('says nothing about routes for a school with one', () => {
+    expect(describeCutoff(distance({ route_count: 1 }))!.routeNote).toBeNull();
+    expect(describeCutoff(distance({ route_count: null }))!.routeNote).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it('warns that a banded school\'s figure is the widest of several', () => {
+    const note = describeCutoff(distance({ route_count: 4 }))!.routeNote;
+    expect(note).toContain('4 admission routes');
+    expect(note).toContain('shorter cut-off');
+  });
+
+  it('is null when there is nothing publishable', () => {
+    expect(describeCutoff(null)).toBeNull();
+    expect(describeCutoff(undefined)).toBeNull();
+    expect(describeCutoff(distance({ distance_m: null }))).toBeNull();
+  });
+});

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

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ describe('buildNavItems', () => {
   it('omits sections with no data', () => {
     const flags = computeSchoolFlags(specialFixture);
     const ids = buildNavItems(flags, {
-      ofsted: null, admissions: null, yearlyDataLength: 1,
+      ofsted: null, admissions: null, admissionDistance: null, yearlyDataLength: 1,
     }).map((n) => n.id);
 
     expect(ids).not.toContain('ofsted');
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ describe('buildNavItems', () => {
       return buildNavItems(flags, {
         ofsted: fixture.ofsted,
         admissions: fixture.admissions,
+        admissionDistance: null,
         yearlyDataLength: fixture.yearlyData.length,
       }).find((n) => n.id === 'results')?.label;
     };
@@ -83,11 +84,27 @@ describe('buildNavItems', () => {
     expect(label(allThroughFixture)).toBe('Results');
   });
 
+  it('opens the admissions entry for a cut-off distance with no EES admissions', () => {
+    // 3% of the schools that render have one source and not the other. The nav
+    // condition and the section's render condition have to agree, or the sticky
+    // nav links to an anchor that was never rendered.
+    const flags = computeSchoolFlags(specialFixture);
+    const ids = buildNavItems(flags, {
+      ofsted: null,
+      admissions: null,
+      admissionDistance: { year: 2025, distance_m: 500, route_count: 1, la_name: 'Camden', distance_unit_raw: 'miles' },
+      yearlyDataLength: 1,
+    }).map((n) => n.id);
+
+    expect(ids).toContain('admissions');
+  });
+
   it('keeps the engagement-led ordering', () => {
     const flags = computeSchoolFlags(primaryFixture);
     const ids = buildNavItems(flags, {
       ofsted: primaryFixture.ofsted,
       admissions: primaryFixture.admissions,
+      admissionDistance: null,
       yearlyDataLength: primaryFixture.yearlyData.length,
     }).map((n) => n.id);
 
@@ -127,16 +144,29 @@ describe('buildSecondaryNavItems', () => {
     const ids = buildSecondaryNavItems(flags, {
       ofsted: secondaryFixture.ofsted,
       admissions: secondaryFixture.admissions,
+      admissionDistance: null,
       yearlyDataLength: secondaryFixture.yearlyData.length,
     }).map((n) => n.id);
 
     expect(ids).toEqual(['ofsted', 'gcse', 'admissions', 'history', 'wellbeing', 'finances']);
   });
 
+  it('opens the admissions entry for a cut-off distance alone', () => {
+    const flags = computeSecondaryFlags(secondaryFixture);
+    const ids = buildSecondaryNavItems(flags, {
+      ofsted: null,
+      admissions: null,
+      admissionDistance: { year: 2025, distance_m: 2400, route_count: 4, la_name: 'Islington', distance_unit_raw: 'miles' },
+      yearlyDataLength: 1,
+    }).map((n) => n.id);
+
+    expect(ids).toContain('admissions');
+  });
+
   it('gates History on more than one year, unlike the primary page', () => {
     const flags = computeSecondaryFlags(secondaryFixture);
     const ids = buildSecondaryNavItems(flags, {
-      ofsted: null, admissions: null, yearlyDataLength: 1,
+      ofsted: null, admissions: null, admissionDistance: null, yearlyDataLength: 1,
     }).map((n) => n.id);
 
     expect(ids).not.toContain('history');

nextjs-app/__tests__/support/renderSchoolDetail.tsx

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ export function renderSchoolDetail(fixture: any) {
   const navItems = buildNavItems(flags, {
     ofsted: fixture.ofsted,
     admissions: fixture.admissions,
+    admissionDistance: fixture.admissionDistance ?? null,
     yearlyDataLength: fixture.yearlyData.length,
   });
 
@@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ export function renderSecondarySchoolDetail(fixture: any) {
   const navItems = buildSecondaryNavItems(flags, {
     ofsted: fixture.ofsted,
     admissions: fixture.admissions,
+    admissionDistance: fixture.admissionDistance ?? null,
     yearlyDataLength: fixture.yearlyData.length,
   });
 

nextjs-app/app/school/[slug]/page.tsx

@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ export default async function SchoolPage({ params }: SchoolPageProps) {
     notFound();
   }
 
-  const { school_info, yearly_data, absence_data, ofsted, census, admissions, admissions_history, deprivation, finance } = data;
+  const { school_info, yearly_data, absence_data, ofsted, census, admissions, admissions_history, admission_distance, deprivation, finance } = data;
 
   // Redirect bare URN to canonical slug URL
   const canonicalSlug = schoolUrl(urn, school_info.school_name).replace('/school/', '');
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ export default async function SchoolPage({ params }: SchoolPageProps) {
   const navInput = {
     ofsted: ofsted ?? null,
     admissions: admissions ?? null,
+    admissionDistance: admission_distance ?? null,
     yearlyDataLength: yearly_data.length,
   };
   const primaryNavItems = buildNavItems(primaryFlags, navInput);
@@ -228,6 +229,7 @@ export default async function SchoolPage({ params }: SchoolPageProps) {
             ofsted={ofsted ?? null}
             census={census ?? null}
             admissions={admissions ?? null}
+            admissionDistance={admission_distance ?? null}
             deprivation={deprivation ?? null}
             finance={finance ?? null}
             nationalAvg={nationalAvg}
@@ -249,6 +251,7 @@ export default async function SchoolPage({ params }: SchoolPageProps) {
             census={census ?? null}
             admissions={admissions ?? null}
             admissionsHistory={admissions_history ?? []}
+            admissionDistance={admission_distance ?? null}
             deprivation={deprivation ?? null}
             finance={finance ?? null}
             nationalAvg={nationalAvg}

nextjs-app/components/school/AdmissionsSection.tsx

@@ -12,59 +12,112 @@
  */
 
 import type { ReactNode } from 'react';
-import type { SchoolAdmissions } from '@/lib/types';
+import type { SchoolAdmissions, SchoolAdmissionDistance } from '@/lib/types';
 import { formatAcademicYear, formatPercentage } from '@/lib/utils';
 import { summariseAdmissions } from '@/lib/compareLogic';
 import { Section, sectionStyles as styles } from './sectionShared';
 import { AdmissionsViewToggle } from './AdmissionsViewToggle';
 import { AdmissionsTrendChart } from './charts';
+import { describeCutoff, CUTOFF_NOTE, CUTOFF_MEASUREMENT_NOTE } from './lastDistanceOffered';
 
 
 export function AdmissionsSection({
   admissions,
   admissionsHistory,
+  admissionDistance,
   isAllThrough,
 }: {
-  admissions: SchoolAdmissions;
+  /* Nullable: the two data sources are independent. A minority of schools have
+     a published cut-off distance but no EES admissions row (3% of the schools
+     that render, sampled against staging), and for those this section exists
+     to carry the distance alone. */
+  admissions: SchoolAdmissions | null;
   admissionsHistory: SchoolAdmissions[];
+  admissionDistance: SchoolAdmissionDistance | null;
   isAllThrough: boolean;
 }) {
+  const cutoff = describeCutoff(admissionDistance);
+
   // Trend toggle only appears with ≥2 years carrying an offer rate.
   const admissionsOfferYears = admissionsHistory.filter((h) => h.first_preference_offer_pct != null).length;
-  const showAdmissionsTrend = admissionsOfferYears >= 2;
+  const showAdmissionsTrend = admissions != null && admissionsOfferYears >= 2;
   // Banded interpretation of the first-choice offer rate ("More than half of
   // first choices missed out" etc.) — the same banding the compare screen
   // uses, so a low offer rate reads as how severe it actually is.
-  const admissionsSummary = summariseAdmissions(admissions);
+  const admissionsSummary = admissions ? summariseAdmissions(admissions) : null;
 
-  const title = <>Admissions{!showAdmissionsTrend && ` (${formatAcademicYear(admissions.year)})`}</>;
+  const title = (
+    <>Admissions{!showAdmissionsTrend && admissions && ` (${formatAcademicYear(admissions.year)})`}</>
+  );
 
   {/* All-through admissions data covers a single entry point (usually the
       Year 7 secondary intake), not reception — say so, or a parent could
       read these as the whole-school figures. */}
-  const subtitle: ReactNode = isAllThrough && admissions.school_phase ? (
+  const subtitle: ReactNode = isAllThrough && admissions?.school_phase ? (
     <p className={styles.sectionSubtitle}>
       These figures are for {admissions.school_phase.toLowerCase()} entry
       {/secondary/i.test(admissions.school_phase) ? ' (Year 7)' : /primary/i.test(admissions.school_phase) ? ' (Reception)' : ''}.
     </p>
   ) : null;
 
+  {/* Spans both columns rather than taking a half-width cell. This is the
+      figure parents come to the page for, and at tile width the two-line
+      "0.31 miles / September 2025" pairing wraps badly. */}
+  const distanceTile = cutoff && (
+    <div className={`${styles.admissionsTile} ${styles.admissionsTileDistance}`}>
+      <dd className={styles.admissionsTileNum}>
+        {cutoff.primary}
+        <span className={styles.admissionsTileSub}>{cutoff.secondary}</span>
+      </dd>
+      <dt className={styles.admissionsTileLabel}>
+        Last distance offered · {cutoff.entryYear}
+      </dt>
+    </div>
+  );
+
+  const distanceNote = cutoff && (
+    <p className={styles.admissionsDistanceNote}>
+      {CUTOFF_NOTE} {CUTOFF_MEASUREMENT_NOTE}
+      {cutoff.routeNote && <> {cutoff.routeNote}</>}
+    </p>
+  );
+
+  /*
+   * Which row template the tile grid needs.
+   *
+   * The grid reserves two equal rows so the year view matches the height of the
+   * trend chart beside it. With a cut-off and no EES admissions there are no
+   * metric tiles to fill them, and the reserved rows render as a bare block of
+   * the grid's own gap colour under the distance tile.
+   */
+  const hasMetricTiles = admissions != null && (
+    admissions.places_offered != null
+    || admissions.first_preference_applications != null
+    || admissions.first_preference_offer_pct != null
+    || admissions.total_applications != null
+  );
+  const tilesClass = [
+    styles.admissionsTiles,
+    cutoff && hasMetricTiles ? styles.admissionsTilesWithDistance : '',
+    cutoff && !hasMetricTiles ? styles.admissionsTilesDistanceOnly : '',
+  ].filter(Boolean).join(' ');
+
   const yearView = (
     <>
-      <dl className={styles.admissionsTiles}>
+      <dl className={tilesClass}>
-        {admissions.places_offered != null && (
+        {admissions?.places_offered != null && (
           <div className={styles.admissionsTile}>
             <dd className={styles.admissionsTileNum}>{admissions.places_offered}</dd>
             <dt className={styles.admissionsTileLabel}>Places offered</dt>
           </div>
         )}
-        {admissions.first_preference_applications != null && (
+        {admissions?.first_preference_applications != null && (
           <div className={styles.admissionsTile}>
             <dd className={styles.admissionsTileNum}>{admissions.first_preference_applications}</dd>
             <dt className={styles.admissionsTileLabel}>Wanted it first</dt>
           </div>
         )}
-        {admissions.first_preference_offer_pct != null && (
+        {admissions?.first_preference_offer_pct != null && (
           <div className={`${styles.admissionsTile} ${styles.admissionsTileAccent}`}>
             <dd className={styles.admissionsTileNum}>
               {admissions.first_preference_offers != null && admissions.first_preference_applications != null ? (
@@ -81,20 +134,25 @@ export function AdmissionsSection({
             <dt className={styles.admissionsTileLabel}>Got their first choice</dt>
           </div>
         )}
-        {admissions.total_applications != null && (
+        {admissions?.total_applications != null && (
           <div className={styles.admissionsTile}>
             <dd className={styles.admissionsTileNum}>{admissions.total_applications.toLocaleString()}</dd>
             <dt className={styles.admissionsTileLabel}>Applied in total</dt>
           </div>
         )}
+        {distanceTile}
       </dl>
-      {admissionsSummary.chip && (
+      {admissionsSummary?.chip && (
         <p className={styles.admissionsTrendSummary}>{admissionsSummary.chip.text}</p>
       )}
+      {distanceNote}
     </>
   );
 
-  const trendView = (
+  {/* Guarded rather than asserted: showAdmissionsTrend already requires
+      admissions, and tying the two together in one expression keeps that
+      invariant checked by the compiler instead of assumed. */}
+  const trendView = admissions && (
     <>
       <div className={styles.admissionsChartCap}>First-choice offer rate</div>
       <AdmissionsTrendChart history={admissionsHistory} />

nextjs-app/components/school/PrimarySchoolSections.tsx

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 import type {
   School, SchoolResult, AbsenceData, OfstedInspection, SchoolCensus,
-  SchoolAdmissions, SchoolDeprivation, SchoolFinance, NationalAverages,
+  SchoolAdmissions, SchoolAdmissionDistance, SchoolDeprivation, SchoolFinance, NationalAverages,
 } from '@/lib/types';
 import { ofstedLegacyAreas } from '@/lib/utils';
 import type { SchoolFlags } from '@/lib/schoolSections';
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ export interface PrimarySchoolSectionsProps {
   census: SchoolCensus | null;
   admissions: SchoolAdmissions | null;
   admissionsHistory: SchoolAdmissions[];
+  admissionDistance: SchoolAdmissionDistance | null;
   deprivation: SchoolDeprivation | null;
   finance: SchoolFinance | null;
   nationalAvg: NationalAverages | null;
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ export interface PrimarySchoolSectionsProps {
 
 export function PrimarySchoolSections({
   schoolInfo, yearlyData, absenceData, ofsted, census,
-  admissions, admissionsHistory, deprivation, finance, nationalAvg, flags,
+  admissions, admissionsHistory, admissionDistance, deprivation, finance, nationalAvg, flags,
 }: PrimarySchoolSectionsProps) {
   const primaryAvg = nationalAvg?.primary ?? {};
   const secondaryAvg = nationalAvg?.secondary ?? {};
@@ -91,10 +92,15 @@ export function PrimarySchoolSections({
         />
       )}
 
-      {admissions && (
+      {/* Either source is enough to justify the section. The cut-off distance
+          and the EES admissions figures come from different places and a
+          minority of schools have one without the other — gating on admissions
+          alone would hide a published distance on those pages. */}
+      {(admissions || admissionDistance) && (
         <AdmissionsSection
           admissions={admissions}
           admissionsHistory={admissionsHistory}
+          admissionDistance={admissionDistance}
           isAllThrough={flags.isAllThrough}
         />
       )}

nextjs-app/components/school/SecondaryAdmissionsSection.tsx

@@ -6,17 +6,22 @@
  * JavaScript at all. Server component.
  */
 
-import type { School, SchoolAdmissions } from '@/lib/types';
+import type { School, SchoolAdmissions, SchoolAdmissionDistance } from '@/lib/types';
 import { formatPercentage } from '@/lib/utils';
 import { Section, sectionStyles as styles } from './sectionShared';
+import { describeCutoff, CUTOFF_NOTE, CUTOFF_MEASUREMENT_NOTE } from './lastDistanceOffered';
 
 export function SecondaryAdmissionsSection({
-  admissions, schoolInfo, hasSixthForm,
+  admissions, admissionDistance, schoolInfo, hasSixthForm,
 }: {
-  admissions: SchoolAdmissions;
+  /* Nullable for the same reason as the primary section: a school can have a
+     published cut-off and no EES admissions row. */
+  admissions: SchoolAdmissions | null;
+  admissionDistance: SchoolAdmissionDistance | null;
   schoolInfo: School;
   hasSixthForm: boolean;
 }) {
+  const cutoff = describeCutoff(admissionDistance);
   // Moved with this section from SecondarySchoolDetailView, its only consumer.
   const admissionsTag = (() => {
     const policy = schoolInfo.admissions_policy?.toLowerCase() ?? '';
@@ -40,32 +45,43 @@ export function SecondaryAdmissionsSection({
       )}
 
       <div className={styles.metricsGrid}>
-        {admissions.places_offered != null && (
+        {admissions?.places_offered != null && (
           <div className={styles.metricCard}>
             <div className={styles.metricLabel}>Year 7 places offered</div>
             <div className={styles.metricValue}>{admissions.places_offered}</div>
           </div>
         )}
-        {admissions.total_applications != null && (
+        {admissions?.total_applications != null && (
           <div className={styles.metricCard}>
             <div className={styles.metricLabel}>Total applications</div>
             <div className={styles.metricValue}>{admissions.total_applications.toLocaleString()}</div>
           </div>
         )}
-        {admissions.first_preference_applications != null && (
+        {admissions?.first_preference_applications != null && (
           <div className={styles.metricCard}>
             <div className={styles.metricLabel}>1st preference applications</div>
             <div className={styles.metricValue}>{admissions.first_preference_applications.toLocaleString()}</div>
           </div>
         )}
-        {admissions.first_preference_offer_pct != null && (
+        {admissions?.first_preference_offer_pct != null && (
           <div className={styles.metricCard}>
             <div className={styles.metricLabel}>Families who got their first choice</div>
             <div className={styles.metricValue}>{formatPercentage(admissions.first_preference_offer_pct)}</div>
           </div>
         )}
+        {cutoff && (
+          <div className={`${styles.metricCard} ${styles.metricCardDistance}`}>
+            <div className={styles.metricLabel}>
+              Last distance offered · {cutoff.entryYear}
+            </div>
+            <div className={styles.metricValue}>
+              {cutoff.primary}
+              <span className={styles.metricValueSub}>{cutoff.secondary}</span>
+            </div>
+          </div>
+        )}
       </div>
-      {admissions.oversubscribed != null && (
+      {admissions?.oversubscribed != null && (
         <div className={`${styles.admissionsBadge} ${admissions.oversubscribed ? styles.statusWarn : styles.statusGood}`}>
           {admissions.oversubscribed
             ? '⚠ Applications exceeded places last year'
@@ -73,9 +89,23 @@ export function SecondaryAdmissionsSection({
         </div>
       )}
 
-      <p className={styles.sectionSubtitle} style={{ marginTop: '1rem' }}>
+      {/* Replaces a blanket "distance cut-off data is not available for this
-        Historical distance cut-off data is not available for this school. Contact the admissions authority for oversubscription criteria details.
+          school", which was hardcoded onto every secondary page and was untrue
-      </p>
+          wherever the local authority does publish. The absence is now stated
+          only when it is real, and names the authority that would hold it. */}
+      {cutoff ? (
+        <p className={styles.admissionsDistanceNote}>
+          {CUTOFF_NOTE} {CUTOFF_MEASUREMENT_NOTE}
+          {cutoff.routeNote && <> {cutoff.routeNote}</>}
+        </p>
+      ) : (
+        <p className={styles.sectionSubtitle} style={{ marginTop: '1rem' }}>
+          {schoolInfo.local_authority
+            ? `${schoolInfo.local_authority} has not published a cut-off distance for this school.`
+            : 'No cut-off distance has been published for this school.'}{' '}
+          Contact the admissions authority for its oversubscription criteria.
+        </p>
+      )}
 
       {hasSixthForm && (
         <div className={styles.sixthFormNote}>

nextjs-app/components/school/SecondarySchoolSections.tsx

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 import type {
   School, SchoolResult, AbsenceData, OfstedInspection, SchoolCensus,
-  SchoolAdmissions, SchoolDeprivation, SchoolFinance, NationalAverages,
+  SchoolAdmissions, SchoolAdmissionDistance, SchoolDeprivation, SchoolFinance, NationalAverages,
 } from '@/lib/types';
 import { ofstedLegacyAreas } from '@/lib/utils';
 import type { SecondaryFlags } from '@/lib/schoolSections';
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ export interface SecondarySchoolSectionsProps {
   ofsted: OfstedInspection | null;
   census: SchoolCensus | null;
   admissions: SchoolAdmissions | null;
+  admissionDistance: SchoolAdmissionDistance | null;
   deprivation: SchoolDeprivation | null;
   finance: SchoolFinance | null;
   nationalAvg: NationalAverages | null;
@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ export interface SecondarySchoolSectionsProps {
 
 export function SecondarySchoolSections({
   schoolInfo, yearlyData, ofsted, census,
-  admissions, deprivation, finance, nationalAvg, flags,
+  admissions, admissionDistance, deprivation, finance, nationalAvg, flags,
 }: SecondarySchoolSectionsProps) {
   const secondaryAvg = nationalAvg?.secondary ?? {};
 
@@ -79,9 +80,12 @@ export function SecondarySchoolSections({
         />
       )}
 
-      {admissions && (
+      {/* See PrimarySchoolSections: distance and EES admissions are independent
+          sources, so either one warrants the section. */}
+      {(admissions || admissionDistance) && (
         <SecondaryAdmissionsSection
           admissions={admissions}
+          admissionDistance={admissionDistance}
           schoolInfo={schoolInfo}
           hasSixthForm={flags.hasSixthForm}
         />

nextjs-app/components/school/lastDistanceOffered.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/**
+ * Shared logic and copy for the "last distance offered" figure.
+ *
+ * The primary and secondary admissions sections lay their metrics out
+ * differently (a seamless tile grid vs. metric cards), so the markup is not
+ * shared — but the words are. Every caveat below is doing a specific job, and
+ * a figure that appeared on one template without them would be misleading in a
+ * way the other template was not:
+ *
+ *   * The year, because a cut-off is the outcome of one particular admissions
+ *     round and means nothing detached from it.
+ *   * "not a fixed catchment", because that is the inference a parent will
+ *     otherwise draw, and it is wrong — the distance moves every year.
+ *   * The route count, because on a banded school the headline is the widest
+ *     of several cut-offs and does not apply to every child.
+ */
+
+import type { SchoolAdmissionDistance } from '@/lib/types';
+import { formatCutoffDistance, formatEntryYear } from '@/lib/utils';
+
+export interface CutoffDisplay {
+  /** Headline figure, e.g. "0.31 miles". */
+  primary: string;
+  /** Supporting conversion, e.g. "500 m". */
+  secondary: string;
+  /** Entry point the figure belongs to, e.g. "September 2025". */
+  entryYear: string;
+  /** Present only where several admission routes were collapsed into one figure. */
+  routeNote: string | null;
+}
+
+/** What the cut-off measures, and what it does not. Identical on both templates. */
+export const CUTOFF_NOTE =
+  'The furthest home offered a place, after higher priorities such as siblings, ' +
+  'faith and EHCP were applied. It is not a fixed catchment — it moves every year ' +
+  'with the number of applications.';
+
+/** Straight-line, because that is how councils measure it. */
+export const CUTOFF_MEASUREMENT_NOTE = 'Measured in a straight line from the school.';
+
+export function describeCutoff(
+  distance: SchoolAdmissionDistance | null | undefined
+): CutoffDisplay | null {
+  if (!distance) return null;
+
+  const figure = formatCutoffDistance(distance.distance_m);
+  if (!figure) return null;
+
+  const routes = distance.route_count ?? 1;
+
+  return {
+    primary: figure.primary,
+    secondary: figure.secondary,
+    entryYear: formatEntryYear(distance.year),
+    routeNote:
+      routes > 1
+        ? `Furthest of ${routes} admission routes at this school — the one that ` +
+          'applies to your child may have had a shorter cut-off.'
+        : null,
+  };
+}

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

@@ -778,6 +778,38 @@
   word-break: break-word;
 }
 
+/* Last distance offered, secondary template. These cards are opaque
+   (--bg-secondary), so the tint can be set directly here — unlike the primary
+   tile grid, nothing shows through between them. */
+.metricCardDistance {
+    background-color: var(--bg-card);
+    background-image: linear-gradient(var(--brand-bg), var(--brand-bg));
+    border-color: var(--brand);
+    /* Two columns' worth of width. Its label carries the entry year as well as
+       the measure, which at the 140px track width of the other cards wraps to
+       three lines and pushes the figure out of alignment with them. */
+    grid-column: span 2;
+}
+
+.metricCardDistance .metricValue {
+    flex-direction: column;
+    gap: 0.1rem;
+    color: var(--brand-strong);
+}
+
+.metricValueSub {
+    font-size: 0.75rem;
+    font-weight: 500;
+    color: var(--text-muted);
+}
+
+/* Same measured reason as .admissionsTileDistance above: --text-muted falls to
+   4.09:1 on the tinted card in dark theme. */
+.metricCardDistance .metricLabel,
+.metricCardDistance .metricValueSub {
+    color: var(--text-secondary);
+}
+
 .metricHint {
     font-size: 0.7rem;
     color: var(--text-muted);
@@ -1453,6 +1485,62 @@
     color: var(--brand-strong);
 }
 
+/* ── Admissions: last distance offered ──
+ *
+ * Spans the full grid width instead of taking a fifth half-cell. Two reasons:
+ * the tiles are a 2-column grid, so a fifth tile would sit alone next to a gap;
+ * and this is the figure the section is most often opened for, which a
+ * half-width cell would rank below "Applied in total".
+ */
+.admissionsTileDistance {
+    grid-column: 1 / -1;
+    /*
+     * --brand-bg is translucent, and the tile grid paints --border between
+     * cells, so a plain `background` would let the hairline colour show through
+     * and read as muddy rather than tinted. The opaque card colour is laid down
+     * first and the tint composited over it as an image.
+     */
+    background-color: var(--bg-card);
+    background-image: linear-gradient(var(--brand-bg), var(--brand-bg));
+}
+
+.admissionsTileDistance .admissionsTileNum {
+    color: var(--brand-strong);
+}
+
+/*
+ * The tint costs the muted tokens their AA margin, so this tile does not use
+ * them.
+ *
+ * Measured on the composited backdrop, not the computed one: the tint is a
+ * background-image over --bg-card, so getComputedStyle reports the untinted
+ * card and flatters the result. Sampling the rendered pixel in dark theme gives
+ * a backdrop of rgb(34,59,64), on which --text-muted is 4.09:1 — under the 4.5
+ * floor — while --text-secondary is 6.50:1.
+ *
+ * The label is where the year lives, so it is the last thing on the tile that
+ * can afford to be hard to read: a distance without its year is not a fact
+ * about anything.
+ */
+.admissionsTileDistance .admissionsTileLabel,
+.admissionsTileDistance .admissionsTileSub {
+    color: var(--text-secondary);
+}
+
+/*
+ * The caveats, not a footnote in the visual-noise sense: without them the
+ * figure reads as a catchment boundary. Kept at body contrast rather than
+ * --text-muted for that reason — it qualifies the number above it, so it has
+ * to be as readable as the number.
+ */
+.admissionsDistanceNote {
+    margin: 0.85rem 0 0;
+    font-size: 0.8125rem;
+    line-height: 1.55;
+    color: var(--text-secondary);
+    max-width: 68ch;
+}
+
 .admissionsVerdict {
     margin-top: 0.75rem;
     margin-bottom: 0.25rem;
@@ -1568,6 +1656,20 @@
     grid-template-rows: 1fr 1fr;
 }
 
+/* The distance tile occupies a third row. Left implicit it would inherit the
+   1fr sizing of the row template and stretch to match the metric tiles above,
+   which are twice its content height. */
+.admissionsViewYear .admissionsTilesWithDistance {
+    grid-template-rows: 1fr 1fr auto;
+}
+
+/* Cut-off distance but no EES admissions figures: there is nothing to put in
+   the two metric rows, and leaving them in the template paints an empty block
+   of the grid's gap colour beneath the tile. */
+.admissionsViewYear .admissionsTilesDistanceOnly {
+    grid-template-rows: auto;
+}
+
 .admissionsChartCap {
     font-size: 0.8125rem;
     font-weight: 600;

nextjs-app/lib/schoolSections.ts

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 import type {
   School, SchoolResult, AbsenceData, SchoolCensus,
-  OfstedInspection, SchoolAdmissions, SchoolDeprivation, SchoolFinance,
+  OfstedInspection, SchoolAdmissions, SchoolAdmissionDistance, SchoolDeprivation, SchoolFinance,
 } from './types';
 import { isSpecialSchool } from './utils';
 
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ export function computeSchoolFlags({
 export interface NavItemsInput {
   ofsted: OfstedInspection | null;
   admissions: SchoolAdmissions | null;
+  /** A published cut-off distance renders the Admissions section on its own,
+   *  so it has to open the nav entry too. */
+  admissionDistance: SchoolAdmissionDistance | null;
   yearlyDataLength: number;
 }
 
@@ -133,7 +136,7 @@ export interface NavItemsInput {
  */
 export function buildNavItems(
   flags: SchoolFlags,
-  { ofsted, admissions, yearlyDataLength }: NavItemsInput,
+  { ofsted, admissions, admissionDistance, yearlyDataLength }: NavItemsInput,
 ): NavItem[] {
   const navItems: NavItem[] = [];
   if (ofsted) navItems.push({ id: 'ofsted', label: 'Ofsted' });
@@ -143,7 +146,7 @@ export function buildNavItems(
       label: flags.isAllThrough ? 'Results' : flags.isSecondary ? 'GCSEs' : 'SATs',
     });
   }
-  if (admissions) navItems.push({ id: 'admissions', label: 'Admissions' });
+  if (admissions || admissionDistance) navItems.push({ id: 'admissions', label: 'Admissions' });
   if (flags.hasInclusionData) navItems.push({ id: 'inclusion', label: 'Pupils' });
   if (yearlyDataLength > 0) navItems.push({ id: 'history', label: 'History' });
   if (flags.hasSchoolLife) navItems.push({ id: 'school-life', label: 'School Life' });
@@ -213,12 +216,12 @@ export function computeSecondaryFlags({
  */
 export function buildSecondaryNavItems(
   flags: SecondaryFlags,
-  { ofsted, admissions, yearlyDataLength }: NavItemsInput,
+  { ofsted, admissions, admissionDistance, yearlyDataLength }: NavItemsInput,
 ): NavItem[] {
   const navItems: NavItem[] = [];
   if (ofsted) navItems.push({ id: 'ofsted', label: 'Ofsted' });
   if (flags.hasResults) navItems.push({ id: 'gcse', label: 'GCSEs' });
-  if (admissions) navItems.push({ id: 'admissions', label: 'Admissions' });
+  if (admissions || admissionDistance) navItems.push({ id: 'admissions', label: 'Admissions' });
   if (yearlyDataLength > 1) navItems.push({ id: 'history', label: 'History' });
   if (flags.hasWellbeing) navItems.push({ id: 'wellbeing', label: 'Wellbeing' });
   if (flags.hasFinance) navItems.push({ id: 'finances', label: 'Finances' });

nextjs-app/lib/types.ts

@@ -163,6 +163,30 @@ export interface SchoolAdmissions {
 }
 
 
+/**
+ * Last distance offered — how far from the school the last child to be given a
+ * place that year lived.
+ *
+ * Not a catchment: it is the outcome of one year's applications and moves every
+ * year. Only published by the local authorities that choose to, so most schools
+ * have none of this at all.
+ */
+export interface SchoolAdmissionDistance {
+  /** Entry year the cut-off belongs to — always shown alongside the figure. */
+  year: number;
+  /** Straight-line distance in metres. */
+  distance_m: number | null;
+  /**
+   * Admission routes collapsed into this figure (ability bands, or separate
+   * reception and junior intakes). Above 1 the distance is the furthest of
+   * several, which the page has to say out loud.
+   */
+  route_count: number | null;
+  la_name: string | null;
+  /** The unit the council published in ("miles", "meters", "km"). */
+  distance_unit_raw: string | null;
+}
+
 export interface SchoolDeprivation {
   lsoa_code: string | null;
   idaci_score: number | null;
@@ -330,6 +354,8 @@ export interface SchoolDetailsResponse {
   admissions: SchoolAdmissions | null;
   /** All available admissions years, oldest first. Drives the multi-year trend view. */
   admissions_history: SchoolAdmissions[];
+  /** Latest published cut-off distance, or null where the LA publishes none. */
+  admission_distance: SchoolAdmissionDistance | null;
   deprivation: SchoolDeprivation | null;
   finance: SchoolFinance | null;
 }

nextjs-app/lib/utils.ts

@@ -502,6 +502,54 @@ export function getPhaseStyle(phase?: string | null): { key: string; label: stri
   }
 }
 
+const METRES_PER_MILE = 1609.344;
+
+/**
+ * Format an admission cut-off distance.
+ *
+ * Miles lead because that is the unit councils publish in — 90% of the source
+ * rows are miles — and because it is the unit a parent has already been quoted
+ * if they have read their council's booklet. The metric figure follows as
+ * support rather than replacing it.
+ *
+ * Below 100 m the miles figure stops carrying information ("0.03 miles"), so
+ * the two swap round and metres lead instead.
+ */
+export function formatCutoffDistance(
+  metres: number | null | undefined
+): { primary: string; secondary: string } | null {
+  if (metres == null || !Number.isFinite(metres) || metres <= 0) return null;
+
+  const miles = metres / METRES_PER_MILE;
+
+  if (metres < 100) {
+    return {
+      primary: `${Math.round(metres)} m`,
+      secondary: `${miles.toFixed(2)} miles`,
+    };
+  }
+
+  return {
+    primary: `${miles.toFixed(2)} miles`,
+    secondary: metres < 1000
+      ? `${Math.round(metres / 10) * 10} m`
+      : `${(metres / 1000).toFixed(1)} km`,
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * The entry point a cut-off belongs to, phrased the way councils phrase it.
+ *
+ * The distance year is a plain entry year (2025 = the September 2025 intake),
+ * not the six-digit academic year EES uses, so formatAcademicYear would render
+ * it as "2025/26" and invite the reader to think of it as a school year rather
+ * than an application round.
+ */
+export function formatEntryYear(year: number | null | undefined): string {
+  if (year == null) return '';
+  return `September ${year}`;
+}
+
 export function formatAcademicYear(year: number | null | undefined): string {
   if (year == null) return '';
   const s = year.toString();

pipeline/dags/school_data_pipeline.py

@@ -224,3 +224,68 @@ with DAG(
     )
 
     extract_idaci >> dbt_build_idaci >> invalidate_cache_idaci
+
+
+# ── Annual DAG (Last distance offered) ────────────────────────────────
+
+with DAG(
+    dag_id="school_data_annual_distance",
+    default_args=default_args,
+    description="Last distance offered (LA admission cut-offs) extraction and transform",
+    # Councils publish on allocation day (March for secondary, April for
+    # primary) and each one on its own timetable, so there is no date worth
+    # scheduling against. Triggered manually after a collection run refreshes
+    # the CSV.
+    schedule=None,
+    start_date=datetime(2025, 1, 1),
+    catchup=False,
+    tags=["school-compare", "annual"],
+) as annual_distance_dag:
+
+    extract_distance = BashOperator(
+        task_id="extract_distance",
+        bash_command=f"cd {PIPELINE_DIR} && {MELTANO_BIN} run tap-uk-school-distance target-postgres",
+    )
+
+    # Coverage is the thing that silently rots here: the CSV is assembled by
+    # hand from council publications, so a collection run that half-failed
+    # produces a valid file with a fraction of the schools in it. A row count
+    # alone would not catch that — losing an entire local authority leaves the
+    # total looking healthy — so the floor is checked on distinct LAs too.
+    validate_distance = BashOperator(
+        task_id="validate_distance",
+        bash_command=f"""
+            cd {PIPELINE_DIR} && python -c "
+import psycopg2, os, sys
+conn = psycopg2.connect(
+    host=os.environ.get('PG_HOST', 'localhost'),
+    port=os.environ.get('PG_PORT', '5432'),
+    user=os.environ.get('PG_USER', 'postgres'),
+    password=os.environ.get('PG_PASSWORD', 'postgres'),
+    dbname=os.environ.get('PG_DATABASE', 'school_compare'),
+)
+cur = conn.cursor()
+cur.execute('SELECT count(*), count(distinct urn), count(distinct la_code) FROM raw.school_distance_offered')
+rows, urns, las = cur.fetchone()
+conn.close()
+print(f'Loaded {{rows}} rows, {{urns}} schools, {{las}} local authorities')
+if rows < 7000 or urns < 3000 or las < 45:
+    print('ERROR: distance extract is short of expected coverage '
+          '(baseline 2026-08: 9128 rows / 3726 schools / 57 LAs)', file=sys.stderr)
+    sys.exit(1)
+print('Validation passed')
+"
+        """,
+    )
+
+    dbt_build_distance = BashOperator(
+        task_id="dbt_build",
+        bash_command=f"cd {PIPELINE_DIR}/transform && {DBT_BIN} build --profiles-dir . --target production --select stg_school_distance+ fact_admission_distance+",
+    )
+
+    invalidate_cache_distance = BashOperator(
+        task_id="invalidate_cache",
+        bash_command=INVALIDATE_CACHE_CMD,
+    )
+
+    extract_distance >> validate_distance >> dbt_build_distance >> invalidate_cache_distance

pipeline/meltano.yml

@@ -67,6 +67,21 @@ plugins:
       pip_url: ./plugins/extractors/tap-uk-idaci
       executable: tap-uk-idaci
 
+    # Last distance offered — admission cut-offs collected from LA
+    # publications. There is no national source for this, so the URL points at
+    # the collected CSV rather than at a government endpoint (same pattern as
+    # the legacy KS2/KS4 URLs above).
+    - name: tap-uk-school-distance
+      namespace: uk_school_distance
+      pip_url: ./plugins/extractors/tap-uk-school-distance
+      executable: tap-uk-school-distance
+      settings:
+        - name: download_url
+          kind: string
+          description: URL of the collected last-distance-offered CSV
+      config:
+        download_url: http://10.0.1.224:8081/filebrowser/api/public/dl/UU_oEqVr?inline=true
+
   loaders:
     - name: target-postgres
       variant: meltanolabs

pipeline/plugins/extractors/tap-uk-school-distance/pyproject.toml

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=68", "wheel"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "tap-uk-school-distance"
+version = "0.1.0"
+description = "Singer tap for last-distance-offered admission cut-offs collected from LA admissions publications"
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
+dependencies = [
+    "singer-sdk~=0.53",
+    "requests>=2.31",
+]
+
+[project.scripts]
+tap-uk-school-distance = "tap_uk_school_distance.tap:TapUKSchoolDistance.cli"

pipeline/plugins/extractors/tap-uk-school-distance/tap_uk_school_distance/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+"""tap-uk-school-distance: Singer tap for LA "last distance offered" admission cut-offs."""

pipeline/plugins/extractors/tap-uk-school-distance/tap_uk_school_distance/tap.py

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+"""Singer tap for "last distance offered" school admission cut-offs.
+
+Unlike every other tap in this project, the upstream here is not a single
+government endpoint. There is no national dataset of admission cut-off
+distances: each local authority publishes its own, in its own format
+(PDF booklets, XLSX allocation tables, HTML pages), and only some publish
+at all. The CSV this tap reads is the output of that collection work —
+one row per school per year per admission route, already normalised to
+metres in `distance_m`.
+
+The tap deliberately does no cleaning. Implausible values (0.0 miles,
+1-metre cut-offs, a 533-mile outlier) are loaded verbatim into `raw` and
+filtered in `stg_school_distance`, so the raw table stays a faithful
+record of what the councils published and the plausibility rules live in
+one reviewable place.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import csv
+import io
+
+import requests
+from singer_sdk import Stream, Tap
+from singer_sdk import typing as th
+
+REQUEST_TIMEOUT = 300
+
+
+class SchoolDistanceStream(Stream):
+    """Stream: last distance offered, one row per school × year × admission route."""
+
+    name = "school_distance_offered"
+    # school_name is part of the key, not decoration: where a school admits
+    # through several routes the route is encoded in the name ("… Band 1",
+    # "… Band 2"), and (urn, year) alone is not unique. Verified against the
+    # source: (urn, year) collides on 118 keys, (urn, year, school_name) on
+    # none. Without school_name in the key a reload would silently drop the
+    # other bands.
+    primary_keys = ["urn", "year", "school_name"]
+    replication_key = None
+
+    schema = th.PropertiesList(
+        th.Property("urn", th.IntegerType, required=True),
+        th.Property("year", th.IntegerType, required=True),
+        th.Property("school_name", th.StringType, required=True),
+        th.Property("la_code", th.IntegerType),
+        th.Property("la_name", th.StringType),
+        # The figure as the council published it, before unit conversion —
+        # kept so a surprising metre value can be traced back to "0.31 miles"
+        # without reopening the source PDF.
+        th.Property("distance_value_raw", th.NumberType),
+        th.Property("distance_unit_raw", th.StringType),
+        th.Property("distance_m", th.NumberType),
+        # Path of the council publication the row was read from. This is the
+        # provenance trail for a figure we cannot re-derive from an API.
+        th.Property("source_file", th.StringType),
+    ).to_dict()
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _num(value: str) -> float | None:
+        try:
+            return float(value)
+        except (TypeError, ValueError):
+            return None
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _int(value: str) -> int | None:
+        try:
+            return int(float(value))
+        except (TypeError, ValueError):
+            return None
+
+    def get_records(self, context):
+        url = self.config["download_url"]
+        self.logger.info("Downloading school distance data from %s", url)
+
+        resp = requests.get(url, timeout=REQUEST_TIMEOUT)
+        resp.raise_for_status()
+
+        reader = csv.DictReader(io.StringIO(resp.text))
+
+        yielded = 0
+        skipped = 0
+        for row in reader:
+            urn = self._int(row.get("urn"))
+            year = self._int(row.get("year"))
+            name = (row.get("school_name") or "").strip()
+
+            # Every part of the primary key must be present, or the load is
+            # not idempotent. One row in the source has a blank year.
+            if urn is None or year is None or not name:
+                skipped += 1
+                continue
+
+            yield {
+                "urn": urn,
+                "year": year,
+                "school_name": name,
+                "la_code": self._int(row.get("la_code")),
+                "la_name": (row.get("la_name") or "").strip() or None,
+                "distance_value_raw": self._num(row.get("distance_value_raw")),
+                "distance_unit_raw": (row.get("distance_unit_raw") or "").strip() or None,
+                "distance_m": self._num(row.get("distance_m")),
+                "source_file": (row.get("source_file") or "").strip() or None,
+            }
+            yielded += 1
+
+        self.logger.info(
+            "Yielded %d distance records (%d skipped: missing urn, year or school name)",
+            yielded,
+            skipped,
+        )
+
+
+class TapUKSchoolDistance(Tap):
+    """Singer tap for LA-published admission cut-off distances."""
+
+    name = "tap-uk-school-distance"
+
+    config_jsonschema = th.PropertiesList(
+        th.Property(
+            "download_url",
+            th.StringType,
+            required=True,
+            description="URL of the collected last-distance-offered CSV",
+        ),
+    ).to_dict()
+
+    def discover_streams(self):
+        return [SchoolDistanceStream(self)]
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    TapUKSchoolDistance.cli()

pipeline/transform/models/marts/_marts_schema.yml

@@ -156,6 +156,22 @@ models:
       - name: cross_la_offers
       - name: total_offers
 
+  - name: fact_admission_distance
+    description: >
+      Last distance offered — one row per URN per year. Where a school admits
+      through several routes (ability bands, separate reception/junior
+      intakes) the figure is the furthest of them and route_count says how
+      many were collapsed.
+    columns:
+      - name: urn
+        tests: [not_null]
+      - name: year
+        tests: [not_null]
+      - name: distance_m
+        tests: [not_null]
+      - name: route_count
+        tests: [not_null]
+
   - name: fact_finance
     description: School financial data — one row per URN per year
     columns:

pipeline/transform/models/marts/fact_admission_distance.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+-- Mart: last distance offered — one row per URN per year.
+--
+-- Collapses the per-route grain of stg_school_distance to the grain the site
+-- serves. Where a school admits through several routes the figure shown is the
+-- FURTHEST of them, which is what "last distance offered" literally means: the
+-- distance of the last place the school gave out that year.
+--
+-- route_count travels with it so the page can say so. A parent looking at a
+-- banded secondary needs to know that 2.4 miles is the widest of four bands
+-- and not the number that applies to their own child — the count is what makes
+-- that sentence possible, and dropping it would make the figure quietly
+-- optimistic.
+--
+-- Kept separate from fact_admissions rather than joined into it. That mart is
+-- EES-derived and near-complete for England; this one comes from 57 local
+-- authorities that publish cut-offs at all, so folding it in would add mostly
+-- null columns to every school in the country and tie two very different
+-- refresh cadences together.
+
+with routes as (
+    select * from {{ ref('stg_school_distance') }}
+),
+
+per_year as (
+    select
+        urn,
+        year,
+        max(distance_m)             as distance_m,
+        count(*)                    as route_count,
+        min(la_code)                as la_code,
+        min(la_name)                as la_name,
+        -- The unit the council actually published in. Where routes disagree
+        -- (they do not in the current data) the alphabetically first is taken
+        -- rather than an arbitrary row, so the mart is deterministic.
+        min(distance_unit_raw)      as distance_unit_raw,
+        min(source_file)            as source_file
+    from routes
+    group by urn, year
+)
+
+select
+    urn,
+    year,
+    distance_m,
+    route_count,
+    la_code,
+    la_name,
+    distance_unit_raw,
+    source_file
+from per_year

pipeline/transform/models/staging/_stg_sources.yml

@@ -61,3 +61,11 @@ sources:
 
       - name: idaci
         description: Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index lookups
+
+      - name: school_distance_offered
+        description: >
+          Last distance offered (admission cut-offs) transcribed from local
+          authority admissions publications. One row per school × year ×
+          admission route; no national source exists, so coverage is limited to
+          the LAs that publish. Loaded verbatim — implausible values are
+          filtered in stg_school_distance, not here.

pipeline/transform/models/staging/stg_school_distance.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+-- Staging model: "last distance offered" admission cut-offs.
+--
+-- One row per school × year × admission route. A school admits through
+-- several routes when it bands by ability (Islington publishes four bands per
+-- secondary) or takes more than one intake (Gloucestershire publishes
+-- reception, junior and secondary allocations separately). The route is
+-- carried in school_name, which is why it forms part of the grain here and is
+-- collapsed only in fact_admission_distance.
+--
+-- PLAUSIBILITY BAND (25 m – 25 km)
+--
+-- The source is transcribed from council PDFs, spreadsheets and web pages, and
+-- a minority of rows are transcription or unit errors rather than real
+-- cut-offs. Three failure modes, all present:
+--
+--   * 0.0 miles (34 rows, mostly Staffordshire). Published where a school
+--     filled on a higher criterion so distance was never reached — a real
+--     fact, but "0 metres" read as a cut-off would tell a parent the opposite
+--     of the truth.
+--   * 1–10 metre values (72 rows, e.g. Hillingdon). A cut-off inside the
+--     school gate is not physically possible; these are unit slips.
+--   * Values above 25 km (~240 rows), topping out at 533 miles. Genuine rural
+--     secondary cut-offs reach roughly 12–15 miles, so the ceiling keeps those
+--     while cutting figures that are visibly wrong.
+--
+-- Together these are ~4% of rows. They are loaded verbatim into raw and
+-- excluded here, so the rule is reviewable in one place and the raw table
+-- stays a faithful record of what each council published.
+
+{% set min_plausible_m = 25 %}
+{% set max_plausible_m = 25000 %}
+
+with source as (
+    select * from {{ source('raw', 'school_distance_offered') }}
+),
+
+renamed as (
+    select
+        cast(urn as integer)                as urn,
+        cast(year as integer)               as year,
+        trim(school_name)                   as admission_route,
+        cast(la_code as integer)            as la_code,
+        la_name,
+        cast(distance_value_raw as numeric) as distance_value_raw,
+        distance_unit_raw,
+        cast(distance_m as numeric)         as distance_m,
+        source_file
+    from source
+    where urn is not null
+      and year is not null
+      and distance_m is not null
+      and cast(distance_m as numeric) between {{ min_plausible_m }} and {{ max_plausible_m }}
+)
+
+select * from renamed

pipeline/transform/tests/assert_admission_distance_plausible.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+-- Custom test: every published cut-off distance is inside the plausibility
+-- band, and there is exactly one row per school per year.
+--
+-- The band is enforced in stg_school_distance; this asserts it survived the
+-- max() collapse in the mart. A failure means either the staging filter was
+-- edited without updating this test, or the grain broke — both of which put a
+-- visibly wrong number ("533 miles") on a live school page, which is the one
+-- outcome this feature cannot afford.
+
+with out_of_band as (
+    select urn, year, distance_m, 'out of plausibility band' as problem
+    from {{ ref('fact_admission_distance') }}
+    where distance_m is null
+       or distance_m < 25
+       or distance_m > 25000
+),
+
+duplicated as (
+    select urn, year, max(distance_m) as distance_m, 'duplicate urn/year' as problem
+    from {{ ref('fact_admission_distance') }}
+    group by urn, year
+    having count(*) > 1
+)
+
+select * from out_of_band
+union all
+select * from duplicated