[3][4] It gives education in the following levels: In the city of the lake (Puno), afterwards of the big praise of José Domingo Choquehuanca to the Libertador Simón Bolívar,[5] the Venezuelan soldier loved by the welcome of the people puneña and motivated by the worry of the youth in instructing, decides erigir the Glorious National School of Saint Carlos, like "School of Sciences and Arts" by means of the Decree of 7 August 1825,[6] which was ratified by the National Congress Constituent of Peru on 31 May 1828.

In 1861, the Congress of the Republic of Peru, assigns of the National Bottoms the quantity of ten thousand weights to the School of Saint Carlos of Puno by means of Legislative Resolution of 27 March 1861.

In 1866, the president Mariano Ignacio Meadow, by means of Decree of 2 August of the same year, declares that the National School of Saint Carlos of Puno is of complete secondary instruction.

In 1923 the president Augusto B. Leguía, by means of Law N° 4622 promulgada on 27 January of the same year, has to allocate the acquisition of a Cabinet of physics and of a Laboratory of Chemistry for the National School of Saint Carlos of Puno.

On 13 January 1967, the president Fernando Belaúnde Terry promulga the Law N.º 16388 which creates a section Vespertina in the National School of Saint Carlos of the city of Puno.