diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 092d9c10..50875d91 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+ * Suppress pytest assertion rewrite warning for basilisp when running `basilisp test` (#1252)
+
 ## [v0.4.0]
 ### Added
  * Added support for referring imported Python names as by `from ... import ...` (#1154)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 983e902b..ab4791bd 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ prompt-toolkit = ">=3.0.0,<4.0.0"
 pyrsistent = ">=0.18.0,<1.0.0"
 typing-extensions = ">=4.7.0,<5.0.0"
 
-pytest = { version = ">=7.0.0,<9.0.0", optional = true }
+pytest = { version = ">=8.4.0,<9.0.0", optional = true }
 pygments = { version = ">=2.9.0,<3.0.0", optional = true }
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ black = ">=24.0.0"
 docutils = "*"
 isort = "*"
 pygments = "*"
-pytest = ">=7.0.0,<9.0.0"
+pytest = ">=8.4.0,<9.0.0"
 pytest-pycharm = "*"
 # Ensure the Sphinx version remains synchronized with docs/requirements.txt
 # to maintain consistent output during both development and publishing on
diff --git a/src/basilisp/cli.py b/src/basilisp/cli.py
index d761d6ed..8f91156e 100644
--- a/src/basilisp/cli.py
+++ b/src/basilisp/cli.py
@@ -745,6 +745,15 @@ def test(
             "Cannot run tests without dependency PyTest. Please install PyTest and try again.",
         )
     else:
+        # `basilisp` declares the testrunner as a pytest plugin, so
+        # pytest tries to import it for assertion rewriting.  Since
+        # it's already imported, pytest emits a warning. As rewriting
+        # isn't needed, we ignore it.
+        extra = [
+            "-W",
+            "ignore:Module already imported so cannot be rewritten; basilisp:pytest.PytestAssertRewriteWarning",
+        ] + extra
+
         sys.exit(pytest.main(args=list(extra)))