Incarnate Word Academy is an all-girls Roman Catholic college preparatory school located in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States.

IWA opened a new $15 million, 18,500 square feet (1,720 m2) academic building in the Spring of 2017 to provide additional space for classes, collaboration, student life, and fine arts.

The student body represents fifty-one Catholic parishes and 101 zip codes across the Houston metropolitan area and is a community of 348 young women.

[citation needed] These women of early Texas founded the first permanent school in Houston, and called it Incarnate Word Academy for Young Ladies.

They culminate in a standardized, comprehensive exam each spring, a passing score on which may earn the student college credit.