Work is almost complete on the new Cwm Ifor Primary School in Penyrheol, according to Caerphilly County Borough Council.
The £6 million replacement school will be completed over the coming weeks ready for pupils to move into by the end of the year.
The building, part-funded by a £4m Welsh Government grant, will replace the existing 1950s redbrick building.
Representatives from Caerphilly county borough council visited the development recently to view progress.
Cllr Rhianon Passmore, cabinet member for education and Sandra Aspinall, corporate director of education, received a guided tour of the site with headteacher Gareth Rees.
Cllr Passmore said: “This is a fantastic new development and it’s exciting to be at the stage where we can see the finishing touches being applied to the building.
“We are committed to providing top quality learning environments for our pupils and this the latest in a series of new school projects that will bring real benefits to local children.”
The Minister for Education and Skills, Leighton Andrews helped mark the start of works at the site last November and the scheme has rapidly taken shape since then.
This building was apparently built at the end of the 1930s as a Glamorgan County Council HOSPITAL. Which helps explain its layout. It wasn't always the NHS !
Clive's comment adds an interesting view on what has been a bit of a mystery since we started looking at replacing the old school. The fact that this was a hospital, even an isolation hospital, makes sense when you look at the layout and very long corridors and this story seems to be generally accepted in the area. However we have found nothing to support the fact that this was ever a hospital. The building was constructed in the early 1950's but was opened as a school. The best theory we have is that the site, or even the building, was being considered as a hospital but that this was never followed up. If anyone has any concrete proof of this building history I would be more than interested, as would the school.