Sweden is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Arkansas, United States. Sweden is located on Arkansas Highway 88, 16.1 miles (25.9 km) east of Pine Bluff.[2] On January 22, 2012, an EF2 tornado struck Sweden, damaging grain bins and metal buildings; the tornado continued to a point northeast of Lodge Corner in Arkansas County.[3]

Sweden, Arkansas
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 34°11′35″N 91°43′27″W
Country	United States
State	Arkansas
County	Jefferson
Elevation	190 ft (60 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)	870
GNIS feature ID	57201[1]

Education

It is a part of the Pine Bluff School District[4] The schools serving Sweden are Park/Greenville School for preschool, James Matthews Elementary School, Robert F. Morehead Middle School, and Dollarway High School.

Sweden was previously in the Altheimer School District.[5] The Altheimer-Sherrill district was created in 1979 when the Altheimer and Sherrill districts merged.[6] In 1993,[7] that merged into the Altheimer Unified School District (operator of Altheimer-Sherrill High School),[8][9] which merged into the Dollarway School District on July 10, 2006.[10] Altheimer-Sherrill High closed in 2007, with students moved to Dollarway High.[11] Altheimer Martin Elementary School closed in 2013.[12]

In December 2020 the Arkansas State Board of Education ruled that the Dollarway School District should merge into the Pine Bluff School District as of July 1, 2021; the post-merger school district began operating all existing schools from both districts.[13] Accordingly, the attendance boundary maps of the respective schools remained the same for the 2021–2022 school year, and all DSD territory became a part of the PBSD.[14] The exception was with the pre-kindergarten levels, as all PBSD areas are now assigned to Forrest Park/Greenville School, including the territory from the former Dollarway district.[15]

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