Bell County · four districts
Temple for a four-district school map
Temple is the long morning and the split school map. From 2 N Main St to Bernie Beck Main Gate is 29.0 miles, typically 26 to 35 minutes. Inside the city, schools can be Temple ISD, Belton ISD, Academy ISD, or Troy ISD, and Belton ISD overlaps the west and southwest. The Category A mean sits above Killeen and below Belton. The installation at the end of the drive is Fort Hood, renamed back from Fort Cavazos on June 11, 2025, with the ceremony on July 28, 2025. The namesake is Col. Robert B. Hood. Files saved while the post was Fort Cavazos, from 2023 into 2025, are describing this same gate.
Drive: Google Maps, Monday, Oct 5, 2026, 7:00 a.m. Central, checked 2026-10-04. Name: U.S. Army Garrison Fort Hood and the June 11, 2025 announcement.
| Item | Figure |
|---|---|
| Mean market value | Mean market value from Bell CAD 2025 certified ARB totals (Category A single-family; not a median; not a sale price). $256,911. n = 26,774. Certification dated 8/4/2025. |
| Homestead average | Homestead average $282,070. n = 18,246. Same Bell CAD 2025 certified totals. Separate from the Category A mean above. |
| School districts | Temple ISD, Belton ISD, Academy ISD, and Troy ISD. Belton ISD overlaps the west and southwest. Confirm the campus by address. |
| Drive to Bernie Beck Main Gate | 26 to 35 minutes, 29.0 miles, from 2 N Main St. Monday, Oct 5, 2026, 7:00 a.m. Central, typical to worst. Bernie Beck / Marvin Leath area. Excludes the gate ID-check wait. Longest of the four. |
| ZIPs cited here | 76501 and 76503. |
| County | Bell |
| Pay grade | With dependents, monthly |
|---|---|
| E-5 | $1,695 |
| E-6 | $1,920 |
| O-3 | $2,340 |
Appraisal figures: Bell CAD 2025 certified totals, 8/4/2025, checked 2026-10-04. BAH: DoD BAH 2026, TX286, duty ZIP 76544, checked 2026-10-04.
Four district names, and no campus roster
The school fact for Temple is the split. An address may fall in Temple ISD, Belton ISD, Academy ISD, or Troy ISD. Belton ISD's overlap is the west and southwest of the city. Confirm the campus by address with the district. A roster of campuses would be an incomplete list, so this page names districts and stops. Killeen and Harker Heights are the Killeen ISD towns, each checked by address, and neither of those pages names a single high school for Harker Heights. Belton is Belton ISD across the city, with elementary boundaries from March 2023 still in use for 2026–27, located through Infofinder. Sharing the words "Belton ISD" with a west-Temple address is not the same as living in Belton. Belton City Hall is 21.5 miles from the gate. This origin is 29.0.
Districts: city and district pages, checked 2026-10-04. County: Texas Municipal League city directory.
The longest of the four Mondays
The origin is 2 N Main St. The range is 26 to 35 minutes for 29.0 miles, the longest measured drive in the set. Killeen is 2.6 miles and 4 to 7 minutes. Harker Heights is 8.0 miles and 9 to 14 minutes. Belton is 21.5 miles and 20 to 24 minutes. Temple's band is the wide one: nine minutes from low end to high end. The departure is Monday, October 5, 2026, 7:00 a.m. Central. Google's typical-to-worst range was corroborated to the OpenStreetMap Bernie Beck pin. The ID check is outside the 26 to 35 minutes. The main gate is open either way.
Bernie Beck Main Gate is 24/7 every day. Commercial cargo trucks use North Clarke Road ACP 9 TIF, Clarke Road exit, westbound I-14/US-190, not the main gate. Marvin Leath Visitors Welcome Center, next to the main gate at Bldg 69012, T.J. Mills Blvd, is open 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. A Temple commute planned on Bernie Beck still has a gate when the welcome center is between its opening and the early inbound hour. The official entry page publishes hours for Bernie Beck.
Drive: Google Maps, checked 2026-10-04. Gate: entry page and visitor information, checked 2026-10-04.
Two appraisal readings, both under Harker Heights
Temple's Category A mean is above Killeen's and below Belton's, which puts it below Harker Heights as well. The count is the second largest of the four, after Killeen. The homestead average in the same certified report is a separate figure, with its own count, and it sits above the Category A mean the way Harker Heights' homestead average sits above that city's mean. In words, Temple's homestead average is the lower of the two homestead averages on this site. Harker Heights holds the higher one. Neither figure is a median or a sale price. The monthly allowance in the small table is TX286 for E-5, E-6, and O-3 with dependents. It follows duty ZIP 76544. The ZIPs cited for Temple are 76501 and 76503. They locate the city in the guide. The allowance still reads from duty ZIP 76544.
Certified totals dated 8/4/2025, checked 2026-10-04. BAH ASCII checked 2026-10-04.
Who it suits
Temple suits a Fort Hood report that can spend 26 to 35 minutes and will sort a house into one of four districts before treating "Temple schools" as a single system. It suits a household looking at a Category A mean above Killeen and below Belton, with the homestead average as a second certified number in the box.
It is a weak fit when the morning has to look like Killeen's 4 to 7 minutes or Harker Heights' 9 to 14. It is a weak fit for someone who wants one district name for the whole city. Belton is that neighbor. It is a weak fit for someone shopping a campus list. The district names are the list this page has.
Nearby alternatives
- Belton is the nearer city hall on this side of the mileage, 21.5 miles and 20 to 24 minutes, entirely in Belton ISD, which is also one of Temple's four districts on the west and southwest.
- Harker Heights is the short I-14 drive and the highest Category A mean, in Killeen ISD by address, with the higher homestead average.
- Killeen is the closest origin and the lowest Category A mean, 2.6 miles from City Hall to the same main gate.
Sources and dates
- Origin 2 N Main St; 29.0 miles; 26 to 35 minutes: Google Maps, Monday, Oct 5, 2026, 7:00 a.m. Central, OSRM-corroborated, checked 2026-10-04.
- Category A mean, count, homestead average, and homestead count: Bell CAD 2025 certified totals, 8/4/2025, checked 2026-10-04.
- Four districts and the Belton ISD overlap: city and district pages, checked 2026-10-04.
- Gate: Fort Hood entry page, checked 2026-10-04.
- BAH: DoD BAH 2026, checked 2026-10-04.
- Ceremony: July 28, 2025.