Mrs. Murdock was a founding member of The Pendleton School on the IMG Campus of Bradenton, Florida. In a small dorm with a hand full of young shining stars, she established the curriculum and directed the school on behalf of four board members. Within four years, Linda grew the school into a K-12 college prep school with over 300 students.
In Linda Murdock's four years at Pendleton, she graduated 224 students. Nearly 100%
of them were accepted at their first choice school. 100% of the students who decided to attend college received scholarship. 22% percent of her students were accepted to prestigious top tier universities throughout the United States.
In 2001 the idea of Lyndon Academy started to take shape. While serving as the Head of The Pendleton School, Linda Murdock saw a new and innovative direction for education and herself. She soon stepped away from Pendleton to take on a bigger and brighter challenge. In July of 2004, Mrs. Murdock brought her nearly 35 years of educational expertise to Georgia. With the same spirit, passion, and compassion for educating children at the highest level possible, Linda, with the help of her husband, son, and daughter, founded Lyndon Academy.
In the first school year, Mrs. Murdock ramped up the curriculum and instituted a unique rotating class system for elementary grade levels. The school started as a bilingual school for pre-K and kindergarten students with the intent of adding grades each year. After a year and a half Lyndon Academy earned its SACS-CASI accreditation. In the third year, Lyndon expanded to a trilingual program, offering Mandarin in addition to Spanish to first and second grade students. Now into its fourth year of school in Woodstock, the school has outgrown its temporary facility on Highway 92. Each year the students have averaged within the top 10% in the nation on the Stanford 10 Achievement Test in math and English language arts skills.
In February of 2010 the school will move to its new, larger, more permanent campus at 485 Toonigh Rd., and in the 2010-11 school year Lyndon will educate students from Pre-K through 5th grade.
