The invention relates to the field of sewage treatment, in particular to zeolite synthesized from fly ash and a method for treating high-concentration ammonia-nitrogen wastewater by zeolite. The preparation method of zeolite comprises the step of pretreatment, that is, fly ash is washed and pickled sequentially, and washed-pickled fly ash is obtained; particularly, during washing, the fly ash is evenly mixed with pure water and stirred at 15-30 DEG C for 48 h, and washed fly ash is obtained by solid-liquid separation; during pickling, the washed fly ash and a 2 mol/L HCl solution are mixed ina volume ratio of 1:9, the mixture is stirred at 80 DEG C for 1 h, then solid-liquid separation, washing with water, washing with alcohol and drying are performed, and the washed-pickled fly ash is obtained. Zeolite is pretreated by pickling and water washing pretreatment, so that the ammonia-nitrogen removal rate of zeolite is higher than that of zeolite pretreated by pickling only, and is much higher than that of zeolite pretreated by water washing only; compared with direct pickling, the consumption of hydrochloric acid is reduced by 18.18% and the preparation cost is reduced.