With 560 students in grades 6–12, arranged in distinct middle and high school wings, the new Tahanto Regional Middle/High School serves the communities of Berlin and Boylston, Mass., and offers students the benefits of small-school education while also supporting full shared-use amenities. In the new school, shared public spaces, including a double-height dining commons, library, theater, music suite, and gymnasium, unite the entire school along a community “main street,” while classrooms have been divided into smaller-scale middle and high school wings, each with its own discrete entrance on either side of the main administration suite. Exterior elements including a curved wood bench, tile cladding, and an outdoor space directly off the dining commons are designed to respond gracefully to the school’s heavily forested site on the Wachusett Reservoir.