Student couples agree, as part of the Honor Code, to pursue relationships only under terms acceptable to both sets of parents. Housing is rigidly single-gender. Boys can't visit girls' dorms. Girls can't visit boys' dorms. A student at Patrick Henry College takes advantage of the fact that event the dining hall has Internet access.
Every student is issued a laptop computer and all classrooms are wired to the Internet.
The campus is nestled on 43 acres of rolling pastureland in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The new brick buildings are structured in the historic style of Colonial Williamsburg. Portraits of George Washington and other inspirational Americans peer down from the walls. Before enrolling, many of the initial 90 students had never before been inside a traditional classroom. Almost all received at least part of their elementary and high school educations at home.