Taylor Swift grew up primarily in Pennsylvania. She was born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, and spent most of her childhood on an 11-acre Christmas tree farm in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. When she was nine years old, her family moved to Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where she attended local schools including West Reading Elementary Center and Wyomissing Area Junior/Senior High School
. Later, when she was 13, her parents sold the family farm and relocated to Hendersonville, Tennessee, near Nashville, to support her burgeoning country music career