diff --git a/Lib/test/.ruff.toml b/Lib/test/.ruff.toml
index 3bdd472c0acd9a..2d9c9eeae6c0c6 100644
--- a/Lib/test/.ruff.toml
+++ b/Lib/test/.ruff.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ extend-exclude = [
     "test_capi/test_unicode.py",
     "test_ctypes/test_arrays.py",
     "test_ctypes/test_functions.py",
-    "test_dataclasses.py",
+    "test_dataclasses/__init__.py",
     "test_descr.py",
     "test_enum.py",
     "test_functools.py",
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_dataclasses.py b/Lib/test/test_dataclasses/__init__.py
similarity index 99%
rename from Lib/test/test_dataclasses.py
rename to Lib/test/test_dataclasses/__init__.py
index 6669f1c57e2e78..2b09db03d4d248 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_dataclasses.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_dataclasses/__init__.py
@@ -3684,10 +3684,10 @@ class C:
                 self.assertEqual(C(10).x, 10)
 
     def test_classvar_module_level_import(self):
-        from test import dataclass_module_1
-        from test import dataclass_module_1_str
-        from test import dataclass_module_2
-        from test import dataclass_module_2_str
+        from test.test_dataclasses import dataclass_module_1
+        from test.test_dataclasses import dataclass_module_1_str
+        from test.test_dataclasses import dataclass_module_2
+        from test.test_dataclasses import dataclass_module_2_str
 
         for m in (dataclass_module_1, dataclass_module_1_str,
                   dataclass_module_2, dataclass_module_2_str,
@@ -3725,7 +3725,7 @@ def test_classvar_module_level_import(self):
                     self.assertNotIn('not_iv4', c.__dict__)
 
     def test_text_annotations(self):
-        from test import dataclass_textanno
+        from test.test_dataclasses import dataclass_textanno
 
         self.assertEqual(
             get_type_hints(dataclass_textanno.Bar),
diff --git a/Lib/test/dataclass_module_1.py b/Lib/test/test_dataclasses/dataclass_module_1.py
similarity index 100%
rename from Lib/test/dataclass_module_1.py
rename to Lib/test/test_dataclasses/dataclass_module_1.py
diff --git a/Lib/test/dataclass_module_1_str.py b/Lib/test/test_dataclasses/dataclass_module_1_str.py
similarity index 100%
rename from Lib/test/dataclass_module_1_str.py
rename to Lib/test/test_dataclasses/dataclass_module_1_str.py
diff --git a/Lib/test/dataclass_module_2.py b/Lib/test/test_dataclasses/dataclass_module_2.py
similarity index 100%
rename from Lib/test/dataclass_module_2.py
rename to Lib/test/test_dataclasses/dataclass_module_2.py
diff --git a/Lib/test/dataclass_module_2_str.py b/Lib/test/test_dataclasses/dataclass_module_2_str.py
similarity index 100%
rename from Lib/test/dataclass_module_2_str.py
rename to Lib/test/test_dataclasses/dataclass_module_2_str.py
diff --git a/Lib/test/dataclass_textanno.py b/Lib/test/test_dataclasses/dataclass_textanno.py
similarity index 100%
rename from Lib/test/dataclass_textanno.py
rename to Lib/test/test_dataclasses/dataclass_textanno.py
diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
index 09ceccda1dcde5..cf054c19de6cf2 100644
--- a/Makefile.pre.in
+++ b/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -2134,6 +2134,7 @@ TESTSUBDIRS=	idlelib/idle_test \
 		test/test_capi \
 		test/test_cppext \
 		test/test_ctypes \
+		test/test_dataclasses \
 		test/test_email \
 		test/test_email/data \
 		test/test_import \