Every year there are fewer and fewer pupils enrolled at the school in Dovegh, a village practically straddling Armenia's northern border with Azerbaijan.

This year only six pupils will be entering first grade in the school with a total enrollment of 100. Built in the Soviet era, the school was envisaged to house 300 pupils from Dovegh and surrounding communities in the Noyemberyan district.

Today, the third floor of the school isn't even being used. There is no need.

Anzhik Boudaghyan, an educational administrator at the school, said that enrollment started to drop three years ago. As a result, most of the grades have been combined into one classroom.

Even so, there are only seven pupils in the combined third and fourth grades.

Boudaghyan says the drop in pupils has also negatively affected the level of education they receive.

She says that teachers must now instruct pupils of new different grades sitting in the same class during one 45 minute class session.

Boudaghyan argues that it's tough on the pupils as well who must get to know new classmates every year.

Teachers get paid the same however, even though they are essentially teaching two different courses at the same time.

Despite these problems, the school has been able to maintain a high educational level and most graduates go on to university. Most remain in Yerevan since there isn't much in Dovegh to go back to.

However, unlike many rural communities dotting Armenia, there are just a handful of Dovegh residents that have left to work in Russia.

The school hasn't been renovated since it was built. The roof leaks but there isn't enough money in the budget to repair it.

The school boasts a large gymnasium, but its roof leaks as well.

There are 12 pupils in the twelfth grade graduating class – 6 boys and 6 girls.

When I asked what they would like to change in their village, Hakob Gasparyan rose and said he'd like to change the location of the village.

"Yes, I'd want to relocate Dovegh because it's hard to always live in a border village."