Thanks for sharing, hope it can be helpful to your son! I think something about Christian schools, groups, even churches makes them tend to be super clique-ish, at least in my experience in the US. I struggled way more in those groups than in others, which is pretty sad and backwards.
I haven’t had that experience in the Netherlands. At least the church (related) groups I went to were always happy to include anyone new (religious or not). Probably partially because they were always at the brink of starving from lack of members, but…