U.A. High School

Written 雄英高校 and read Yūei Kōkō, U.A. holds the number one ranking among Japan's hero schools and sorts its intake into departments and classes lettered A through K. The principal, Nezu, presides over a faculty granted remarkable latitude.

As Shota Aizawa explains it, the school ignores conventional teaching orthodoxy and lets instructors run their rooms as they see fit. That freedom extends to expulsion, which any teacher may hand down at any moment for any reason, however trivial. A dismissed student can be brought back later, though the expulsion stays on the permanent record regardless.

The alumni list carries the school's reputation. All Might, Endeavor, and Best Jeanist all trained here, and each of them fought into the top ten of Japan's Hero Rankings. Classes elect a representative and a vice representative, positions coveted in the Hero Course because Hero Agencies read them as proof of leadership, and students are encouraged to decide the matter democratically.

Lessons run six days a week with Sunday the only break. Uniforms consist of a white button up shirt, a gray blazer trimmed in blue-green, a red tie, and brown loafers, worn with dark blue-green trousers or a pleated skirt, and swapped for indoor slip-ons inside the building. Summer drops the blazer. Shoulder buttons quietly announce the wearer's department: one per shoulder for Hero, two for Support, two with a gap for General Studies, and three for Management. Enforcement is loose, and staff tolerate Katsuki Bakugo's undone collar, Izuku Midoriya's crooked tie, non-issue footwear, dyed hair, and piercings alike.

The Department of Heroes teaches combat, first aid, and every other skill needed to earn the license that permits Quirk use in public, with academic subjects filling the morning and heroics filling the afternoon. Getting in demands a practical exam on top of the written one, in which applicants smash robotic mock villains for combat points and earn rescue points for acting heroically. Those students fill Classes A and B.

Applicants who fall short land in General Education, which spans Classes C through E and sends students toward university and other careers, with a transfer into the hero track possible for exceptional grades. Support, covering F through H, builds the equipment heroes carry into the field out of a workshop stocked with anything a designer could want. Management, spread across I through K, teaches the business side, from founding and running agencies to shaping public opinion, including hands-on work in venture capitalism. Every department shares compulsory core subjects such as Japanese, mathematics, science, and foreign languages.

Two annual events define the calendar. The U.A. Sports Festival has grown into a national broadcast that draws Pro Heroes as spectators, giving students from every department a shot at internships or recruitment, a path into the Hero Course, or a showcase for their inventions and business instincts. The School Festival is the lighter counterpart, an open house of student run activities, though the most recent one had to close to the public because of villain activity.

Security escalated alongside the threats. A perimeter wall, dubbed the U.A. Barrier, seals itself automatically against anyone carrying neither a Student ID Card nor the Special Entry Permission ID, which keeps villains and reporters out alike. After students were targeted twice in a single year, the day school became a boarding school built around the Heights Alliance dormitories, with written permission required to leave the grounds; once the Final War ended and the country stabilized, students could choose between home and the dorms again.

Tomura Shigaraki's break in triggered the largest overhaul, run by Power Loader with Mei Hatsume assisting. The grounds are now divided like a game board, each square able to drop into an underground shelter and ride a linear maglev network along whatever route the faculty picks, potentially all the way to partner schools such as Shiketsu High School. Bulwark plates, some three thousand layers of them, fill the gap between the surface and those shelters as a counter to Decay, and the pillars linking them unlock on alarm so each plate can move independently and stall an attack. Anyone taking shelter is isolated until Himiko Toga's Transform time limit would have lapsed. Propulsion jets can lift the entire campus into a floating fortress called Coffin in the Sky, and for the final confrontation the ground was rebuilt from replaceable tiles that eject skyward to halt Decay, ringed by an electromagnetic barrier that paralyzes on contact and powered by students with electrical Quirks.

Nezu holds the principal's office and controls the school. Shota Aizawa articulates its philosophy on teaching and expulsion, while Power Loader, whose real name is Higari Maijima, owns research, development, and maintenance of the campus defenses. Mei Hatsume, his most promising Support student, extends that work, most recently toward launching the shelter blocks into the air. Other staff include Recovery Girl in the nurse's office and Lunch Rush in the cafeteria.

The student body is anchored by Class 1-A and Class 1-B in the hero track, with figures such as Izuku Midoriya, Katsuki Bakugo, and Shoto Todoroki among them. Hitoshi Shinso represents General Education, Mirio Togata and Tamaki Amajiki appear among the upperclassmen, and Support and Management contribute their own cohorts. Seating in each room follows gojūon order by surname, the Japanese equivalent of alphabetical arrangement.

Graduates carry the greatest weight. All Might, Endeavor, and Best Jeanist all came through, as did Oboro Shirakumo. The school's name itself is a joke on that legacy, since 雄英 inverts the kanji of 英雄, the word for hero, while the Latin motto Plus Ultra translates to further beyond and doubles as Spain's national motto. Villains give the surrounding neighborhood a wide berth on principle, and no Hero Agencies operate nearby.