First Coast Academy High School, a division of Atlantic International Institute, Inc. First Coast Academy High School provides high quality correspondence high school educational programs to help students from throughout the world earn their high school diploma entirely through distance learning or online. First Coast Academy is a complete high school, registered with the Florida Department of Education. Through our program, you get a diploma instead of just a piece of paper showing you passed a GED equivalency examination. Our distance learning method is endorsed by the United States Department of Education and is successfully used by leading universities across the country as well as all the U.S. Armed Forces.