The school file number 2587 belonging to John Kerry is seen at the Institut Montana near the Swiss town of Zug March 5, 2004. U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry spent his sixth grade year between September 1954 and June 1955 at the mountainside Swiss boarding school. Top of his class, Kerry was an outstanding student who joined a list of alumni which includes Habsburgs, Rothschilds ands Spanish princes.