Speaking personally... I have ZERO religious upbringing and education. I'm a science nerd, and my entire education (and degrees) are based in science. The more I understand (through scientific study) about living organisms, the more I have to think there is no way it happened by "chance," and that a higher power is the only plausible explanation.
Born Catholic
Catholic school 1-8
Catholic (Jesuit) high school
There were still nuns teaching when I was going through grades 1-8. Actually, the nuns stuck strictly to academics
with the exception of religion classes/curriculum, which was accompanied by history, mathematics, science, reading, and writing. Old school. It was the lay teachers who were a minority of lunatics. They often went off the script injecting their overzealous fixation and often misinterpreted ideas regarding the catechism. I only had a couple, and in both cases I couldn't wait for the year to end.
My teachers in high school were all Jesuit priests and Franciscan brothers. There were no girls. Girls went to another Catholic school nearby. When I went off to college, I was two years ahead of my public school friends academically and philosophically I was a century ahead of them. All the engineering dropouts - and there were many - were public school educated.
Athletics in elementary school and high school did not take a back seat to academic excellence but unlike some public school athletes, nobody got a free ride/pass on academic performance. Shitty grades or bad behavior, you got booted off the team. Absolutely no exceptions. I know this because I got into trouble now and then. It wasn't my grades. Nothing serious. It's just my nature. I never liked authority. I still don't.
We were taught about Darwinism and Creationism with equal weight in the higher elementary grades and high school. Jesuit priests are no strangers to science and history tells us they contributed to a lot of scientific discoveries. Their basic philosophy on this subject is that science gives us insight into how the universe works, which in turn gives us a greater understanding of God’s creation.