The Carabineros School was created by Supreme Decree on December 19, 1908, thanks to the efforts of Commander Roberto Dávila Baeza, under the name "School of Army Carabineros" (). Its mission was to train Non-Commissioned Officers, Corporals, and Troops of the "Cuerpo de Carabineros", a group of regiments and cavalry squadrons of the
Chilean Army under the command of the Ministry of the Interior, mainly dedicated to securing roads, railways, and rural areas. The corps gradually gained prestige and autonomy. The following year, a course for
Officer Candidates was created. Eleven years later, in 1919, the first Organic Law of the Carabineros Corps was enacted. It defined the corps as "a military institution tasked with maintaining order throughout the territory of the Republic, particularly in the countryside and public roads", dependent on the Ministry of the Interior and henceforth independent from the Army. Its first director was Cavalry
Major Francisco Flores Ruiz, who also wrote the lyrics of the Carabineros of Chile Anthem and was the father of composer
Francisco Flores del Campo. Following the merger of the Carabineros Corps (military) with the fiscal and municipal police (civil), which gave rise to
Carabineros de Chile, the school became responsible for training and advancing the officers of the new institution. In 1968, through Law No. 16.811 of the Republic, approved by the Senate on April 10, the name was officially changed to , in memory of the two-time President of the Republic and founder of the institution, General
Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, who also served as the school's director during the 1920s while holding the rank of
Major of
Cavalry. == Academic training ==