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Church Attendance Tied To School Performance

Children who attend worship at least monthly are less likely to repeat a grade than those who worship less frequently.

According to the National Survey of Children's Health, children who attend religious services one to three times a month and those who attend every week are only half as likely to have ever repeated a grade in school as those who attend less than one a month or not at all. The respective rates of grade repetition found in the survey were 10.2 percent for those attending weekly, 8.7 percent for those attending at least monthly but less than weekly, 20.7 percent for those attending less than once a month, and 20.6 percent for those who did not attend at all in the last year.

The difference in grade repetition rates between those attending services weekly and monthly was inconsequential, as was the difference in rates between those attending less than monthly and not at all.

At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mark Regnerus found that "youth church participation positively affects both educational aspirations and achievement."



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