It is located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north-west of the Bendigo central business district.

[1] Long Gully is a working-class suburb of Bendigo, with many older style fibro houses, punctuated by well-established light industry.

[2] Long Gully was heavily affected by the Black Saturday bushfires on 7 February 2009, causing one death.

When it closed in 1992, a majority of the students were transferred to Comet Hill Primary School.

[4] Richards was an Australian science teacher who joined Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in December 1914 as a physicist with the Ross Sea Party.