County / FIPS 48027
Bell County
Texas
Bell County runs 127 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 7 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS, of which 4 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
127
Hospitals
7
With a star rating
4
Land area
1,054
Bell County in numbers
American Community Survey five-year estimates ending 2024. These are sample estimates, not a count — each carries a margin of error, and where that margin is too wide to mean anything the figure is withheld rather than printed.
Population
386,897
Median household income
$68,865
Poverty rate
14.5%
Unemployment rate
6.8%
Median home value
$241,000
Median gross rent
$1,224
Bachelor's degree or higher
27.2%
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Bell County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$4.4B
Per resident
$11,862
Change since FY2021
+19%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $4B |
| 2022 | $4B |
| 2023 | $4B |
| 2024 | $4B |
| 2025 | $4B |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Bell County ranks 161st of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Bell County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Adventhealth Central Texas | Killeen | |
| Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Temple | Temple | |
| Seton Medical Center Harker Heights | Harker Heights | |
| Temple Va Medical Center (Va Central Texas Healthcare System) | Temple | |
| Canyon Creek Behavioral Health | Temple | Not rated |
| Cedar Crest Hospital & Rtc | Belton | Not rated |
| Darnall Amc (Ft Cavazos) | Fort Cavazos | Not rated |
Public schools in Bell County
The 40 most complete records of 127. Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Early Childhood Center | Academy ISD | Little River | 182 |
| Academy El | Academy ISD | Little River | 704 |
| Academy H S | Academy ISD | Little River | 530 |
| Academy J H | Academy ISD | Little River | 419 |
| Alice W Douse El | Killeen ISD | Killeen | 970 |
| Bartlett Schools | Bartlett ISD | Bartlett | 461 |
| Belton Early Childhood School | Belton ISD | Belton | 525 |
| Belton H S | Belton ISD | Belton | 1,941 |
| Belton Middle | Belton ISD | Belton | 691 |
| Belton New Tech H S at Waskow | Belton ISD | Belton | 166 |
| Bonham Middle | Temple ISD | Temple | 622 |
| Brookhaven El | Killeen ISD | Killeen | 584 |
| C E Ellison H S | Killeen ISD | Killeen | 1,682 |
| Cater El | Temple ISD | Temple | 322 |
| Cedar Valley El | Killeen ISD | Killeen | 576 |
| Chaparral H S | Killeen ISD | Killeen | 1,711 |
| Charles E Patterson Middle | Killeen ISD | Killeen | 1,003 |
| Charter Oak El | Belton ISD | Temple | 632 |
| Chisholm Trail El | Belton ISD | Belton | 868 |
| Clear Creek El | Killeen ISD | Fort Hood | 723 |
| Clifton Park El | Killeen ISD | Killeen | 1,026 |
| Dr Joseph A Fowler El | Killeen ISD | Killeen | 802 |
| Eastern Hills Middle | Killeen ISD | Harker Heights | 610 |
| Edna Bigham Mays El | Troy ISD | Troy | 421 |
| Fred W Edwards Academy Aec | Temple ISD | Temple | 107 |
| Gateway H S | Killeen ISD | Killeen | 139 |
| Gateway Middle | Killeen ISD | Killeen | 58 |
| Harker Heights El | Killeen ISD | Harker Heights | 724 |
| Harker Heights H S | Killeen ISD | Harker Heights | 2,359 |
| Hay Branch El | Killeen ISD | Killeen | 602 |
| Haynes El | Killeen ISD | Killeen | 780 |
| Hector P Garcia El | Temple ISD | Temple | 437 |
| High Point El | Belton ISD | Temple | 643 |
| Holland El | Holland ISD | Holland | 310 |
| Holland H S | Holland ISD | Holland | 193 |
| Holland Middle | Holland ISD | Holland | 131 |
| Iduma El | Killeen ISD | Killeen | 852 |
| Ira Cross Jr El | Killeen ISD | Killeen | 623 |
| Jefferson El | Temple ISD | Temple | 491 |
| Joe M Pirtle El | Belton ISD | Temple | 606 |