 King Road, the school is part of the Sunflower County Consolidated School District and was formerly part of the Indianola School District.Historically the town of Indianola maintained separate high schools for its black and white students, with African-American students from one part of town enrolled at Gentry High School and white students enrolled elsewhere.In April 1969 the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the desegregation plan adopted by the Indianola Municipal Separate School District was unconstitutional.