The Kokava school has been in use as an educational institution from its founding in 1913 until the year 1990. It housed a Volksschule, a Stadtschule, an agricultural school, a forestry school, and even an institution for forestry and water management workers of Slovakia. The year 1990 marked its transition into private property and, failing to find a new purpose, the building has gradually fallen into disrepair over the following decades.