school_compare/nextjs-app/components/school/SimilarSchoolsSection.tsx

/**
 * NearbySchoolsSection — the nearest eligible schools, closest first. Server
 * component; only the carousel, the compare bar and the add-to-compare button
 * are client-side.
 *
 * "Other schools nearby", not "similar" ones: the order is distance and only
 * distance. The hard filters upstream still guarantee the set is comparable —
 * same phase, same selectivity, mainstream never beside special — but nothing
 * here ranks by how alike two schools are, so the heading does not say it does.
 *
 * The chips report what a school shares, and may be absent entirely. That is
 * information for the reader to weigh, not a verdict this section has already
 * reached on their behalf.
 *
 * There is deliberately no "how these are chosen" panel: the method is already
 * visible in the lede, the chips and the distances. The single caption line is
 * not a method note — it is the one thing a card cannot self-correct.
 */

import Link from 'next/link';
import type { SimilarSchool } from '@/lib/types';
import { schoolUrl } from '@/lib/utils';
import { AddToCompareButton } from './AddToCompareButton';
import { SimilarSchoolsCarousel } from './SimilarSchoolsCarousel';
import { SimilarSchoolsCompareBar } from './SimilarSchoolsCompareBar';
import { Section } from './sectionShared';
import styles from './SimilarSchools.module.css';

const MINIMUM = 2;

export function shouldRenderSimilar(similar?: SimilarSchool[] | null): boolean {
  return (similar?.length ?? 0) >= MINIMUM;
}

/**
 * What the lede calls the set of schools it is showing.
 *
 * Derived from the school's own GIAS phase rather than the template it renders
 * with, because those disagree for "16 plus" (GIAS phase 6): a sixth-form
 * college renders the primary template — computeSchoolFlags tests for the
 * substring "secondary" — while the backend correctly matches it against the
 * secondary group. Taking the noun from the template would print "Other primary
 * schools near <sixth form college>" above a row of secondaries.
 *
 * A 16-plus school's candidates span the whole secondary group, so no single
 * noun fits and it gets the honest general one.
 */
export function nearbyNoun(phase: string | null | undefined): string {
  const text = (phase ?? '').trim().toLowerCase();
  if (text === 'all-through') return 'all-through schools';
  if (text === '16 plus') return 'schools and colleges';
  if (text.includes('secondary')) return 'secondary schools';
  if (text.includes('primary')) return 'primary schools';
  return 'schools';
}

function metricLabel(key: string): string {
  return key === 'attainment_8_score' ? 'Attainment 8' : 'Reading, writing & maths';
}

function formatMetric(value: number | null, key: string): string {
  if (value == null) return 'Not published';
  return key === 'attainment_8_score' ? value.toFixed(1) : `${Math.round(value)}%`;
}

export function SimilarSchoolsSection({
  urn,
  schoolName,
  phase,
  thisMetricValue,
  similar,
}: {
  urn: number;
  schoolName: string;
  /** The school's own GIAS phase, not the template it renders with. */
  phase: string | null | undefined;
  thisMetricValue: number | null;
  similar?: SimilarSchool[] | null;
}) {
  if (!shouldRenderSimilar(similar)) return null;
  const schools = similar as SimilarSchool[];

  // One card matched on phase alone, so the section may not claim the set
  // shares an intake with this school.
  const metricKey = schools[0].metric_key;
  const noun = nearbyNoun(phase);

  return (
    <Section id="nearby">
      <SimilarSchoolsCarousel
        count={schools.length}
        labelledBy="nearby-schools-heading"
        header={
          <div>
            <h2 id="nearby-schools-heading" className={styles.heading}>
              Other schools nearby
            </h2>
            <p className={styles.lede}>{`Other ${noun} near ${schoolName}.`}</p>
          </div>
        }
      >
        {schools.map((school) => (
          <li key={school.urn} className={styles.school}>
            <p className={styles.distance}>{school.distance_miles} miles away</p>
            <h3 className={styles.name}>
              <Link href={schoolUrl(school.urn, school.school_name)}>
                {school.school_name}
              </Link>
            </h3>
            <p className={styles.meta}>
              {[school.school_type, school.age_range && `Ages ${school.age_range}`]
                .filter(Boolean)
                .join(' · ')}
            </p>
            {school.shared.length > 0 && (
              <ul className={styles.shared}>
                {school.shared.map((label) => (
                  <li key={label} className={styles.chip}>{label}</li>
                ))}
              </ul>
            )}
            <div className={styles.metric}>
              <p
                className={
                  school.metric_value == null ? styles.valueAbsent : styles.value
                }
              >
                {formatMetric(school.metric_value, school.metric_key)}
              </p>
              <p className={styles.metricLabel}>{metricLabel(school.metric_key)}</p>
              {thisMetricValue != null && (
                <p className={styles.metricRef}>
                  {formatMetric(thisMetricValue, metricKey)} at this school
                </p>
              )}
            </div>
            <AddToCompareButton school={school} />
          </li>
        ))}
      </SimilarSchoolsCarousel>

      <SimilarSchoolsCompareBar thisUrn={urn} candidates={schools} />

      {/* The one caveat the cards cannot make on their own: a reader who takes
          "0.6 miles away" for the walk has been misled, and nothing else here
          corrects that. */}
      <p className={styles.caption}>
        Distances are straight-line from this school, not road distance.
      </p>
    </Section>
  );
}