Thea Bowman Leadership Academy is a K-12 charter school in Gary, Indiana.

It was established by the Drexel Foundation for Educational Excellence, Inc., and is managed by American Quality Schools, Inc.

The school is named after Sr Thea Bowman, an African-American Catholic nun, teacher, and scholar in the 20th century.

The K-6 Thea Bowman Leadership Academy occupies the building that once housed Holy Angels School, a Catholic school associated with the adjacent Cathedral of the Holy Angels, which is the seat of the Diocese of Gary.

The new Thea Bowman Leadership Academy High School was dedicated on April 23, 2009,[5] and was fully operational for the 2009–2010 academic year.