More than 2,000 10 to 14-year-olds, dubbed tweenagers, were quizzed using questionnaires and focus groups in churches, youth organisations and schools in England for their views on church, to find out why the biggest reduction in church-goers was by tweenagers.
Helen Wraight, deputy director of Christian Research, said: "Although our research did not focus on finding out why tweenagers who attend church tend to do better in school than those who do not, our guess is that it is down to a number of factors.
"It could be that churches have more middle class regulars, with fewer children from broken homes, who are more emotionally stable at school than those with disrupted home lives, but this is just a guess."
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