Religious service attendance predicts lower dropout independent of school religious affiliation.

Evidence

Frequency of attendance at religious services, which is itself a measure of social capital through intergenerational closure, is strongly related to dropout rate, with 19.5% of public school students who rarely or never attend dropping out compared with 9.1% of those who attend often. But this effect exists apart from, and in addition to, the effect of the school’s religious affiliation. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 186

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s Coleman closure framework: frequency of attendance is the reader’s ‘dense social ties’ mechanism operating within the same school context, not just across school types. — connects to: Catholic schools have far lower dropout rates than public or private schools. — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 185; Religiously-founded private schools show low dropout rates matching Catholic schools; School corporal punishment independently predicts higher juvenile justice contact beyond poverty and region — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7459 (+1 more)
• SEED: The finding that a closure measure (church attendance) predicts outcomes ‘apart from and in addition to’ institutional affiliation is a crisp statistical separation that could anchor an essay on when community density matters independent of structure.
• DEEPTHINKING: The distinction between institutional social capital (Catholic school affiliation) and behavioral closure (attendance frequency) as separable, additive effects is genuinely subtle and central to the reader’s inside-out-versus-ordinary reading.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Coleman, SocialCapitalCreation-1988, 186

Broader Connections

• Religiously-founded private schools show low dropout rates matching Catholic schools #corroborates (0.78)
• School corporal punishment independently predicts higher juvenile justice contact beyond poverty and region #responds-to (0.72) — , The Rod and the Child, 7459