diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/data/excel/test_boolean_types.xlsx b/pandas/tests/io/data/excel/test_boolean_types.xlsx
deleted file mode 100644
index 234703c32f0ab..0000000000000
Binary files a/pandas/tests/io/data/excel/test_boolean_types.xlsx and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/excel/test_readers.py b/pandas/tests/io/excel/test_readers.py
index 0c62b7df8e2cc..bc041882b9fab 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/excel/test_readers.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/excel/test_readers.py
@@ -165,13 +165,13 @@ def xfail_datetimes_with_pyxlsb(engine, request):
 
 class TestReaders:
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("col", [[True, None, False], [True], [True, False]])
-    def test_read_excel_type_check(self, col, datapath):
+    def test_read_excel_type_check(self, col, tmp_excel, read_ext):
         # GH 58159
+        if read_ext in (".xlsb", ".xls"):
+            pytest.skip(f"No engine for filetype: '{read_ext}'")
         df = DataFrame({"bool_column": col}, dtype="boolean")
-        f_path = datapath("io", "data", "excel", "test_boolean_types.xlsx")
-
-        df.to_excel(f_path, index=False)
-        df2 = pd.read_excel(f_path, dtype={"bool_column": "boolean"}, engine="openpyxl")
+        df.to_excel(tmp_excel, index=False)
+        df2 = pd.read_excel(tmp_excel, dtype={"bool_column": "boolean"})
         tm.assert_frame_equal(df, df2)
 
     def test_pass_none_type(self, datapath):