The first school in Indian Gap was taught in 1877 in a log cabin on the E. Spivey, Sr. place with A. B. "Gus" Bell as the teacher. Mr. Bell taught three schools in the Cove at different times. The second school was taught in 1878 by Mr. Bell in a log house, also on the Spivey place. Mr. Bell taught the third school in Indian Gap during the spring and summer of 1879 at the Tillery house, another log house. 

Mrs. Sneed taught the next school also in the summer of 1879. When Mr. Bell moved away he sold his house to the community. With remodeling this house became a school which was also used for many years by churches.  

Mr. Howard taught the next school at Indian Gap.  

By 1880 Mrs. Helen M. (Gerrells) Stoddard was in Indian Gap and taught school. Educated at Columbia University Helen M. Gerrells had become Mrs. S. D. Stoddard on 9 April, 1875, and was widowed 25 December, 1878, when her husband succumbed to tuberculosis. Both Helen Stoddard and her son had been diagnosed with the same disease so they came to Texas to be with her parents as they waited for death. At Indian Gap, Helen Stoddard organized a Sunday School and was a most influential citizen. Mrs. Stoddard was instrumental in founding and establishing the College of Industrial Arts at Denton, TX, and in organizing in 1891 the Women’s Christian Temperance Union of which she served as President. 1882-83.

A new school was erected during the summer of 1881 which had seats with backs, writing tables, window panes, and a large heater. Until 1881 school sessions in Indian Gap were held only during the warm months because the school building did not have any heat source. After a large heater was installed in the middle of the school room, the boys took turns cutting and hauling wood for the fire. The curriculum included the blue back spellers, McGuffey’s readers, Ray’s and Davis Arithmetic, geography, history of the United States, and grammar. Students were expected to be able to name the states and capitals of each, the presidents in order, to memorize short stories, and to be able to write short stories.

In 1911 the independent Indian Gap School had ten grades. In 1913 a two-story brick school was constructed.  Clara L. Rea taught at Indian Gap before she married Felden W. Anderson in 1918. J. R. Strain, W. A. Lemmons, W. C. Mayfield, Gus Jacobs, D. Richardson, A. B. Dunn, and Otto Reinert were on the Indian Gap School Board in 1924-25 when O. R. Williams, W. J. Harris, Mrs. J. S. Conner, and Mrs. Frankie Fortune were employed as teachers.