diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md b/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md
index aa47f9c7593..483d97e3917 100644
--- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,2 +1,13 @@
+*   Add public method for checking if a table is ignored by the schema cache.
+
+    Previously, an application would need to reimplement `ignored_table?` from the schema cache class to check if a table was set to be ignored. This adds a public method to support this and updates the schema cache to use that directly.
+
+    ```ruby
+    ActiveRecord.schema_cache_ignored_tables = ["developers"]
+    ActiveRecord.schema_cache_ignored_tables?("developers")
+    => true
+    ```
+
+    *Eileen M. Uchitelle*
 
 Please check [7-2-stable](https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/7-2-stable/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md) for previous changes.
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record.rb
index b61ef19fd05..83a85dd83a5 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record.rb
@@ -196,6 +196,17 @@ module ActiveRecord
   singleton_class.attr_accessor :schema_cache_ignored_tables
   self.schema_cache_ignored_tables = []
 
+  # Checks to see if the +table_name+ is ignored by checking
+  # against the +schema_cache_ignored_tables` option.
+  #
+  #   table_ignored?(:developers)
+  #
+  def self.schema_cache_ignored_table?(table_name)
+    ActiveRecord.schema_cache_ignored_tables.any? do |ignored|
+      ignored === table_name
+    end
+  end
+
   singleton_class.attr_reader :default_timezone
 
   # Determines whether to use Time.utc (using :utc) or Time.local (using :local) when pulling
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/schema_cache.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/schema_cache.rb
index 184037ab25c..77ea0f46e77 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/schema_cache.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/schema_cache.rb
@@ -434,9 +434,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
         end
 
         def ignored_table?(table_name)
-          ActiveRecord.schema_cache_ignored_tables.any? do |ignored|
-            ignored === table_name
-          end
+          ActiveRecord.schema_cache_ignored_table?(table_name)
         end
 
         def derive_columns_hash_and_deduplicate_values