up to, 1  as far as or approaching (a certain part, degree, point, etc.): She went wading up to her knees. I am up to the eighth lesson. 2  in full realization or attainment of: He worked up to president of the company. 3  as many as; to the limit of: The car will seat up to five persons.
The standard deviation is a measure of how the data is clustered about the mean. For large sets of data, approximately 68.3% of the data lies within one standard deviation of the mean and approximately 95.4% of the data lies within two standard deviations of the mean.
The Standard Deviation is a measure of how spread out numbers are (read that page for details on how to calculate it). When we calculate the standard deviation we find that (generally): 68% of values are within. 1 standard deviation of the mean. 95% of values are within. 2 standard deviations of the mean.