diff --git a/python/cudf/cudf/tests/test_stats.py b/python/cudf/cudf/tests/test_stats.py
index a6dae25dd80..98e3b255aaf 100644
--- a/python/cudf/cudf/tests/test_stats.py
+++ b/python/cudf/cudf/tests/test_stats.py
@@ -423,6 +423,10 @@ def test_cov1d(data1, data2):
 )
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("method", ["spearman", "pearson"])
 def test_corr1d(data1, data2, method):
+    if method == "spearman":
+        # Pandas uses scipy.stats.spearmanr code-path
+        pytest.importorskip("scipy")
+
     gs1 = cudf.Series(data1)
     gs2 = cudf.Series(data2)