Table 1.

Individual and school‐level factors associated with young people’s wellbeing during the transition to secondary school

	Model 1: null model (n = 36,401)			Model 2: adjusted for individual demographics (n = 33,790)			Model 3: school transition (n = 32,283)
Residual variance	26.28	0.19	[25.92, 26.66]	25.19	0.21	[24.75, 25.60]	25.18	0.19	[24.82, 25.57]
	Coeff.	SD	95% CI	Coeff.	SD	95% CI	Coeff.	SD	95% CI
Student‐level variables
Sex
Male				0.67	0.06	[0.55, 0.77]	0.66	0.05	[0.54, 0.75]
Ethnicity
White non‐British				−0.86	0.13	[−1.10, −0.59]	−0.86	0.14	[−1.14, −0.60]
Minority ethnicity				−0.12	0.11	[−0.33, 0.10]	−0.09	0.11	[−0.30, 0.13]
Family affluence				1.10	0.06	[1.00, 1.21]	1.04	0.05	[0.94, 1.14]
FSM transition score							−0.23	0.04	[−0.30, −0.16]
School‐level residual variances
Primary school residual variance	0.46	0.07	[0.32, 0.61]	0.32	0.04	[0.26, 0.41]	0.23	0.04	[0.15, 0.31]
Secondary school residual variance	0.30	0.05	[0.20, 0.40]	0.25	0.05	[0.18, 0.37]	0.27	0.05	[0.18, 0.39]