diff --git a/tests/python_package_test/test_sklearn.py b/tests/python_package_test/test_sklearn.py
index d187e9df5a9f..1cdd047f1857 100644
--- a/tests/python_package_test/test_sklearn.py
+++ b/tests/python_package_test/test_sklearn.py
@@ -1488,6 +1488,12 @@ def test_sklearn_tags_should_correctly_reflect_lightgbm_specific_values(estimato
         assert sklearn_tags.input_tags.allow_nan is True
         assert sklearn_tags.input_tags.sparse is True
         assert sklearn_tags.target_tags.one_d_labels is True
+        if estimator_class is lgb.LGBMClassifier:
+            assert sklearn_tags.estimator_type == "classifier"
+            assert sklearn_tags.classifier_tags.multi_class is True
+            assert sklearn_tags.classifier_tags.multi_label is False
+        elif estimator_class is lgb.LGBMRegressor:
+            assert sklearn_tags.estimator_type == "regressor"
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("task", all_tasks)