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If you ask Google Maps for directions to "Alexandria Park Community School", it sends you to the Senior Campus. I imagine most parents or students visiting the school for the first time (for year 7) will want the Junior campus.

If you ask Google Maps for directions to "Alexandria Park Community School Junior Campus", you'll get the right directions.

I'd welcome ideas on how to address this.

Can we edit the data so that they are not both called the same name? I would think this would change the information sent to google maps enough to show different map results.

Actually the above is a weird side effect that happens when we have two catchment areas but just one school entry. One row is actually for primary catchment and one for the secondary level catchment.

OK so the idea is that you'd see:

Alexandria Park Community School - Junior (K - 7) Campus Alexandria Park Community School - Senior (8-12) Campus

The only trick is that if you are looking at the senior campus, it has a secondary level catchment and that's it (great!) but if you look at the junior campus, it actually has two catchments that apply, a primary catchment for years K - 6 and and a secondary catchment for year 7.

@Lilith-Palmer it might be good to figure out how many other schools are in similar situations.

Lilith to review this.

One idea: incorporate some kind of feedback link, and if people report being confused we can prioritize it.