She attended preschool and kindergarten at the Alvernia Montessori School, run by Franciscan nuns,before moving to the Wyndcroft School, a co-ed private school.Swift and her brother were raised in accordance with the Presbyterian faith and attended Vacation Bible School.When Swift was nine years old, the family moved to a rented house in the suburban town of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania,where she attended West Reading Elementary Center and Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School.Swift summered at her parents' waterfront vacation home in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, and described it as the place "where most of my childhood memories were formed.