diff --git a/packages/py-elephant/package.py b/packages/py-elephant/package.py
index 6827a99c78fdd8596a35a64d4ee115163b40c227..bf3b343219a6831456a5e1edcbd578d1b15538a6 100644
--- a/packages/py-elephant/package.py
+++ b/packages/py-elephant/package.py
@@ -84,4 +84,6 @@ class PyElephant(PythonPackage, CudaPackage):
         pytest = which('pytest')
         # skip some tests that seem to fail on HPC deployments,
         # see https://gitlab.ebrains.eu/ri/tech-hub/platform/esd/ebrains-spack-builds/-/issues/38
-        pytest('-k', 'not test_WPLI_ground_truth_consistency_real_LFP_dataset and not test_multitaper_cohere_perfect_cohere')
+        # test_WPLI_ground_truth_consistency_real_LFP_dataset, test_multitaper_cohere_perfect_cohere
+        # skip the following due to issue with neo > 0.13.0 https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/elephant/pull/634
+        pytest('-k', 'not test_WPLI_ground_truth_consistency_real_LFP_dataset and not test_multitaper_cohere_perfect_cohere and not test_neo_tools and not test_statistics and not test_trials')