 As of 1996, nearly 90% of Indianola's public school students were of African-American ethnic heritage.Meanwhile, Indianola Academy's student body, which numbered between 500 and 1,000 students over the school's first three decades of existence, included only 4 or 5 black students during that entire time.Gentry's team nickname is the Rams and the school's athletic teams compete in Mississippi's 4A Division.