If the Brits don’t use gray, which I accept as the truth, I still hold in America we use both spellings. In America no one is taught, nor uses colour, organise, and the long list of other British spellings, unless they purposely choose to use them for a specific reason. There are a some exceptions, like sometimes on formal invitations honour is used in lieu of honor.
I wouldn’t say gray is the American spelling, but possibly we can say America also uses gray along with grey.
To drive my point home, grey is also an American spelling, while colour simply isn’t.
There are other words like doughnut that are used in both countries, but America also has a shorter version, donut. As far as I know England doesn’t use donut, although maybe that has changed in the last 20 years.