diff --git a/python/docs/source/reference/pyspark.rst b/python/docs/source/reference/pyspark.rst
index c13df6ee2d2b4..fc0775eb7f8f5 100644
--- a/python/docs/source/reference/pyspark.rst
+++ b/python/docs/source/reference/pyspark.rst
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ Spark Context APIs
     SparkContext.defaultParallelism
     SparkContext.dump_profiles
     SparkContext.emptyRDD
+    SparkContext.getCheckpointDir
     SparkContext.getConf
     SparkContext.getLocalProperty
     SparkContext.getOrCreate