It was founded as a segregation academy by white parents fleeing newly integrated public schools.

As of 1990, the Central Delta Academy and Inverness High School women's basketball teams had never faced off against each other.

[6] By the early 21st century, CDA and Inverness High School sponsored joint Homecoming weekends and events.

[7] In 1987[8] the school's parent teacher organization published The Sharecropper, a collection of area recipes.

[10] Central Delta Academy was permitted to purchase the building and land from the public school system at the outset of mandatory desegregation, as nearly all of the parents of white students who attended the school when segregation was terminated refused to permit their children to attend school with black students, so they promptly established the all-white CDA for their children to attend.