East Wake Academy (EWA) is a public charter school located in Zebulon, North Carolina, United States.

East Wake Academy is a public charter school, meaning any parents can register their children for enrollment, but admission is decided via a lottery system when first applying.

[5] The proposal was approved by the state about two months later on January 7, 1998, alongside twenty other charter schools in the same week.

[7][8] This campaigning led to 130 families in Zebulon to approve of the formation of this type of school,[7] many of whom were among the first to enroll their children when registration began on March 16, 1998.

[9] In an attempt to fix the largely dysfunctional situation, Dickens was replaced as headmaster only one month after the school opened by another local named Michelle Taylor.

[6] Under Taylor, all but 120 of the 482 students of the class of 1999–2000 were moved to 14 mobile unit classrooms in a centralized 26 acres (11 ha) area in Zebulon where the current school grounds remain today.

[10][11] In November 2018, the school was equipped with a steel-pin door locking system by RhinoWare, which could be activated in case of a lockdown.

[12] In 2019, the school exceeded the framework performance expectations set by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

In Baseball, the team was defeated in the second round of the 1–A state playoffs in 2021 after Granville Central High School beat them in a 0–6 shutout game.

[21] In Men's Basketball, the team on February 12, 2022, won their first conference title after beating Raleigh Charter High School 55–34 at home, allowing them to compete in the 1–A state playoffs for the first time since 2013.

[22] In Women's Soccer, the team was defeated in the second round of the 1–A state playoffs after East Carteret High School beat them in a 0–8 shutout game.