Decision Support System for School Operational Assistance Recipients (BOS) using Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) Method in SD Negeri 064022 Medan Tuntungan

Education is highly regarded as a means of improving the quality of a nation's human resources. One form of improving the quality of human resources is funding for basic education which is to ease the burden on the community on education funding in the framework of the Nine-year Compulsory Education, namely the School Operational Assistance (BOS) program. Although this program can increase the participation of students, there are still many children who cannot attend school, drop out of school and cannot continue their education to the next level. In implementing the program, determining BOS recipients at SD Negeri 064022 Medan Tuntungan often faced problems and had difficulty screening students who were eligible for BOS. The determination of BOS recipients by the school is still done manually which causes inefficient determination of student data. In this study, the method to be used based on this competency is to use the SAW method. By applying the SAW method for determining BOS recipients, it can be adjusted to the criteria for Parents 'Income, Number of Dependents, Parents' Occupation, Average Value and weight so that it can be used with the SAW method so that it makes it easier for schools to determine which students are eligible to receive BOS. Based on the results of the calculation of the SAW method, those who deserve to receive BOS are Alternative 4 with a value of 3.00, Alternative 1 with a value of 2.88, Alternative 3 with a value of 2.40 and Alternative 2 with a value of 2.04. The system was built using the Visual Basic 2010 programming language and Ms. Access 2013, and with this system, the determination of BOS recipients using the SAW method at SD Negeri 0604022 Medan Tuntung became more efficient and more accurate.