Ms. Himes teaches 7th–8th grade English, Mock Trial, and Educators Rising. She loves student debates and discussions. A former school admin, she’d be a lawyer if not teaching. Outside school, she enjoys reading, collecting rocks, and home projects.

Sensei Sanders has been at AIMS for 18 years, leading the archery program for 14, earning 12 state titles. He also teaches jewelry-making, a passion from high school, studied in college alongside Recreational Therapy. Recently, he overcame a fear by learning scuba diving.

Mrs. Martinez has been teaching for 26 years but took 10 years off when she had her daughter, Claire. She went to Texas Tech and majored in Education and minored in English. Mrs. Martinez’s favorite subject to teach is history because she loves learning about other cultures.

Sensei Paul Deherrera is a physical education teacher at AIMS and has taught at the school since 2012. Deherrera's class aims to establish perseverance and persistence. He wishes that the students he instructs learn the ability to work harder than anyone else.

Gabriel Gurule is an AIMS graduate alumni, attending AIMS from his 8th grade class in 2018 to his senior year in 2021. Throughout his high school classes, Gabriel found the AIMS’s dual credit system extremely useful. AIMS was worth the struggle.