diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/test_sql.py b/pandas/tests/io/test_sql.py
index af77972d9fd26..c8f921f2be0fb 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/test_sql.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/test_sql.py
@@ -2300,9 +2300,15 @@ def test_api_escaped_table_name(conn, request):
 def test_api_read_sql_duplicate_columns(conn, request):
     # GH#53117
     if "adbc" in conn:
-        request.node.add_marker(
-            pytest.mark.xfail(reason="pyarrow->pandas throws ValueError", strict=True)
-        )
+        pa = pytest.importorskip("pyarrow")
+        if not (
+            Version(pa.__version__) >= Version("16.0") and conn == "sqlite_adbc_conn"
+        ):
+            request.node.add_marker(
+                pytest.mark.xfail(
+                    reason="pyarrow->pandas throws ValueError", strict=True
+                )
+            )
     conn = request.getfixturevalue(conn)
     if sql.has_table("test_table", conn):
         with sql.SQLDatabase(conn, need_transaction=True) as pandasSQL: