It houses 4 classrooms, toilet block, staff resource base and the usual office provision.
The annexe building is the old Miners' Welfare Institute at the top of School Road and houses a classroom along with the kitchen and dining/gym hall.
For secondary education, pupils are catchment allocated to Auchmuty High School, a short distance away, in Glenrothes.
Although the East Coast Main Line runs through the village, Coaltown does not have a railway station.
The nearest options are Glenrothes with Thornton railway station, located in Thornton, providing links to the Fife Circle Line, or Markinch railway station for trains to Inverness, Aberdeen, Dundee, Perth, and Edinburgh.