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Context: A, B and C are all students. A and C are friends who study in the
same school. B wears a different uniform than them, though I don't know if
this means she is from a different school or a higher grade since B is
slightly older than them. B is very well known among students since there are
many rumors about her. After seeing B walking somewhere, A says to C:

> A: Bさんだ。
>
> C: え?
>
> A: Bさんだよ。うちの上の学校の.

I realize that うち can mean someone's "group" as in their family, school, etc.
But I can't figure out what it means in this specific phrase.
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meaning usage
Meaning of うちの上 in phrase
~~Yes, うち means "our home/house/office/etc". If there is no context, this
うちの上の学校 should just mean うちの上にある学校, or the school that is located somewhere
above their house. Is there a hill around their house?~~

~~Another less likely possibility is うちの上の子の学校, or the school which their
older child attends. 上の子 means "the older child", but when there is no chance
of confusion, 上 by itself sometimes can represent 上の子 (e.g., うちは上が8歳になりました).
But this interpretation depends on the context. Unless they have been talking
about their kids, this interpretation is not very likely.~~

**EDIT:** Checked the actual game clip and the basic setting of the game
described in
[Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A3%85%E7%94%B2%E6%82%AA%E9%AC%BC%E6%9D%91%E6%AD%A3).
It's probably "the school one stage higher than ours" as broccoli suggested.
But this is indeed a roundabout and puzzling expression — why didn't he simply
say 高校 or something? Well, although she might look like a 女子 **高** 生, the
author probably did not want to explicitly mention what type of school she
attends, as this was an eroge and her age must not be specified. If you happen
to know why the term [女子 **校**
生](https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E5%A5%B3%E5%AD%90%E6%A0%A1%E7%94%9F) is often
used in eroge, this seemingly weird expression is in the same vein.
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