Electives include art history, astronomy, and computer science. Honors and Advanced Placement courses are offered in English, calculus, history, government, and biology. Enrichment courses are offered in art, computers, current events, drama, French, and music. Students are assigned courses on the basis of academic requirements and ability. There are 10 to 15 students in an average class.
Special instruction is available for cadets who require special academic assistance.
All cadets are required to keep these hours, during which faculty officers are on duty to maintain a quiet atmosphere for study. Thirty-two of these are day students. The Academy enrolls young men from thirty-six states and fifteen other countries. Approximately 70 percent of the cadets come from homes in the Eastern Seaboard region, and the remaining students come from throughout the United States and the world. Though Fork Union is affiliated with the Virginia Baptist General Association, cadets represent thirty-three different religious denominations.