- More Turkish origin families than German families consider only the district’s common school. These individuals do not enter an evaluation process.
- At the evaluation stage, more Turkish origin families than German families select a common school, and less often select a Catholic or Protestant one.
- The main question for the eventual distribution of school choice outcomes is whether individuals indeed consider and select one of the denominational alternatives rather than the district’s common school. In this context, the family’s impact in terms of perception and evaluation is much more important for final school attendance than the school’s influence at the school access stage.
- Both Turkish-origin and German students who enter the district’s common school face considerably larger proportions of foreign nationals than they would have encountered in the Catholic district school.
- The educational experience available within the family clearly affects the level of information they obtain.
- Turkish families are far less likely than German families to possess the relevant information on available school types.
- The closer the Catholic/Protestant option becomes to home relative to the distance to the common school, the more likely individuals are to select the denominational alternative.
- The better the achievement grading of the denominational school is compared with that of the common alternative, the more likely individuals are to choose the higher-graded Catholic or Protestant school.