Coral Reef Academy

Coral Reef Academy is a youth program in Vaitele, Samoa. Public advocacy directories identify it as an active program and connect it to earlier Samoan programs marketed as Robert Louis Stevenson Youth Academy and A Better Way Youth Academy.

The program's early history is documented chiefly in advocacy sources and former-student testimony. The r/troubledteens program index states that the program opened in 1996 as Robert Louis Stevenson Youth Academy, was owned by A Better Way, Co. Ltd., and soon changed names to A Better Way Youth Academy before later being known as Coral Reef Academy. The same source names Rodney Rice, Larry Gelwix, David Smyth, and Sterling Devereux as founders or early principals of A Better Way, Co. Ltd.

Public survivor materials describe Coral Reef Academy as part of a longer Samoan program history involving multiple names and operators.