17% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, lower than the citywide average of 20%. Additionally, 79% of high school students in Kew Gardens and Woodhaven graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%. Schools Schools of note located in Kew Gardens include Yeshiva Tifereth Moshe, Bais Yaakov of Queens and Yeshiva Shaar Hatorah. The only public school in Kew Gardens is PS 99, which has special programs for gifted students such as the Gifted and Talented program. Libraries The Queens Public Library operates two branches near Kew Gardens: The Richmond Hill branch at 118-14 Hillside Avenue The Briarwood branch at 85-12 Main Street Transportation The neighborhood is served by the New York City Subway's at the Kew Gardens–Union Turnpike subway station, and by the at the 121st Street subway station. In addition, Long Island Rail Road's City Terminal Zone stops at the Kew Gardens station. New York City Bus routes include , as well as express bus routes to Manhattan. The neighborhood is accessible by car from Interstate 678 (Van Wyck Expressway), Grand Central Parkway, Jackie Robinson Parkway, Queens Boulevard, and Union Turnpike. These all intersect at the Kew Gardens Interchange. Notable people Notable residents of Kew Gardens include: Grace Albee (1890-1985), printmaker and wood engraver. Burt Bacharach (born 1928) Award-winning pianist, composer and producer grew up in Kew Gardens. Crosby Bonsall (1921–1995) artist and children's book author and illustrator. Maud Ballington Booth (1865–1948), Volunteers of America co-founder. Joshua Brand (born 1950), television writer, director and producer, grew up in Kew Gardens. Ralph Bunche (1903–1971), diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Rudolf Callmann (1892-1976), German American legal scholar and expert in the field of German and American competition law who assisted Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Ron Carey (1936-2008), labor leader who served as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1991 to 1997. Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), actor, lived at 105 Mowbray Drive in 1919–1922. Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004), comedian who lived above the Austin Ale House. Rona Elliot (born 1947), music journalist, grew up in Kew Gardens. Lloyd Espenschied (1889-1986), electrical engineer who co-invented the modern coaxial cable. Kitty Genovese (1935-1964), Italian American bartendress raped and murdered outside her apartment complex in an incident that prompted a social psychological theory named the "bystander effect". George Gershwin (1898–1937), composer. Bernhard Goetz (born 1947), best known for shooting four young black men on