Entrepreneurial Competence of School Principals at State Vocational Schools in Lubuk Begalung District, Padang City

This research is motivated by the problem of suboptimal mastery of entrepreneurial competence of school principals at State Vocational Schools in Lubuk Begalung District, Padang City. This research aims to obtain information and describe the entrepreneurial competence of school principals which is seen from several aspects, namely: innovation, hard work, and motivation. This type of research is quantitative descriptive. The population of this study is all teachers of State Vocational Schools in Lubuk Begalung District, Padang City with civil servant status totaling 140 teachers. The sample was 61 civil servant teachers taken by the Proportional Stratified Random Sampling technique. The instrument used is a questionnaire of the Likert Scale model with five answer options that have been tested for validity and reliability. The data was processed with the mean formula. The results of the study showed that the entrepreneurial competence of school principals was seen from the following aspects: school principals innovated with an average score of 4.05 in the capable category, principals worked hard with an average score of 4.04 in the capable category, and school principals motivated the academic community with an average score of 4.18 in the capable category. It can be concluded that the principal's entrepreneurial competence at State Vocational Schools District, Lubuk Begalung, Padang City is in the capable category with an average score of 4.09.