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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><B>UNITED STATES</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</B></P>

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DC 20549</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><B>FORM 8-K</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="text-transform: uppercase"><B>CURRENT
REPORT </B></FONT><B>PURSUANT TO</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><B>SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE</B></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><B>SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center">Date of report (Date of earliest event reported):
September 7, 2012</P>

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<P STYLE="font: bold 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; border-bottom: Black 0.75pt solid; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center">Education
Realty Trust, Inc.</P>

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Its Charter)</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 26%; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; padding: 0; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; text-indent: 0">Maryland</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 11%; text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 26%; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">001-32417</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 11%; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 26%; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; padding: 0; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; text-indent: 0">201352180</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-top: black 1pt solid; padding: 0; text-align: center; text-indent: 0">(Commission File Number)</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">(IRS Employer<BR>
 Identification No.)</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 60%; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; padding: 0; text-align: center; text-indent: 0"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; color: black"><B>999
    South Shady Grove Road, Suite 600 <BR>
    </B></FONT><B>Memphis, Tennessee</B></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 15%; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 25%; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; padding: 0; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; text-indent: 0; vertical-align: bottom">38120</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">(Address of Principal Executive Offices)</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="text-align: center; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">(Zip Code)</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center; border-bottom: Black 0.75pt solid"><B>901-259-2500</B></P>

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area code)</P>

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Applicable</P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: center">(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed
Since Last Report)</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.25in">Check the appropriate
box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the
following provisions (<I>see </I>General Instruction A.2. below):</P>

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communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)</FONT></TD>
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material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)</FONT></TD>
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communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))</FONT></TD>
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communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))</FONT></TD>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in"><B>Item 9.01. Financial Statements
and Exhibits.</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.25in">During December 2011, Education Realty
Trust, Inc. (the &ldquo;Company&rdquo;) acquired GrandMarc at Westberry Place (the &ldquo;Grandmarc&rdquo;), serving Texas Christian
University in Fort Worth, Texas for a purchase price of $55.1 million. The following financial information with respect to the
Grandmarc, which updates the information included on pages F-13 to F-17 in the Company&rsquo;s Registration Statement on Form S-3
(File No. 333-177422), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 21, 2011 (the &ldquo;Registration Statement&rdquo;),
together with the financial information for the University Village Towers included on pages F-9 to F-12 in the Registration Statement,
constitutes the information required by Rule 3-14 and Article 11 of Regulation S-X with respect to a portion of the Company&rsquo;s
acquisition activity since January 1, 2011. No individual property purchased was an individually significant acquisition as defined
under Rule 3-14 of Regulation S-X.</P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in; padding: 0; text-indent: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">(a)</TD><TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0"><I>Financial Statements of Businesses Acquired</I>.</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.25in"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">The
audited statements of certain revenues and certain expenses of GrandMarc at Westberry Place (the &ldquo;Grandmarc&rdquo;) for the
year ended December 31, 2010</FONT> <FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif">and its unaudited financial statements
as of and for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 are filed herewith as Exhibit 99.1, and incorporated in this Item 9.01(a)
by reference.</FONT></P>

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<TD STYLE="width: 0.25in; padding: 0; text-indent: 0"></TD><TD STYLE="width: 0.25in; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">(b)</TD><TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0"><I>Pro Forma Financial Information</I>.</TD></TR></TABLE>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.25in">The unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated
balance sheet of Education Realty Trust, Inc. as of June 30, 2012 and the pro forma condensed consolidated statement of operations
for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and the six months ended June 30, 2012 giving effect to the acquisitions of
the GrandMarc and the University Village Towers properties, as well as certain probable dispositions and the Company&rsquo;s August
2012 equity offering, is filed herewith as Exhibit 99.2 and incorporated in this Item 9.01(b) by reference.</P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.25in">(d) <I>Exhibits</I>. The following exhibits
are being filed with this Current Report on Form 8-K.</P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 85%; padding: 0; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0">Description</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: center; text-indent: 0">23.1</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">Consent of Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: center; text-indent: 0">99.1</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">Statements of Revenues and Certain Expenses for the Year Ended December 31, 2010 and the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011 (unaudited)</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: center; text-indent: 0">99.2</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">Unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated financial statements of Education Realty Trust, Inc. as of June 30, 2012 and for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and for the six months ended June 30, 2012</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><B>SIGNATURE</B></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0; text-indent: 0.5in">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.</P>

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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="padding: 0; font-weight: bold; text-indent: 0"><B>EDUCATION REALTY TRUST, INC.</B></TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="width: 50%; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 4%; padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0"><FONT STYLE="color: black">Date: </FONT>September 7, 2012</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">By:</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0; border-bottom: Black 1pt solid">/s/ Randall H. Brown</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">Randall H. Brown</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer,</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; font-style: italic; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0">Treasurer and Secretary</TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD>
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    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">&nbsp;</TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center"><B>INDEX TO EXHIBITS</B></P>

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    <TD STYLE="width: 15%; padding: 0; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; text-align: center">Exhibit No.</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 85%; padding: 0; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0">Description</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: center; text-indent: 0">23.1</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">Consent of Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: center; text-indent: 0">99.1</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">Statements of Revenues and Certain Expenses for the Year Ended December 31, 2010 and the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011 (unaudited)</TD></TR>
<TR STYLE="vertical-align: top">
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-align: center; text-indent: 0">99.2</TD>
    <TD STYLE="padding: 0; text-indent: 0">Unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated financial statements of Education Realty Trust, Inc. as of June 30, 2012 and for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and for the six months ended June 30, 2012</TD></TR>
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
DC 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
PURSUANT TO
SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported):
September 7, 2012
Education
Realty Trust, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in
Its Charter)
Maryland
001-32417
201352180
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
(Commission File Number)
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
999
    South Shady Grove Road, Suite 600
Memphis, Tennessee
38120
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
901-259-2500
(Registrant's telephone number, including
area code)
Not
Applicable
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed
Since Last Report)
Check the appropriate
box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the
following provisions (
see
General Instruction A.2. below):
o
Written
communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
o
Soliciting
material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
o
Pre-commencement
communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
o
Pre-commencement
communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Item 9.01. Financial Statements
and Exhibits.
During December 2011, Education Realty
Trust, Inc. (the "Company") acquired GrandMarc at Westberry Place (the "Grandmarc"), serving Texas Christian
University in Fort Worth, Texas for a purchase price of $55.1 million. The following financial information with respect to the
Grandmarc, which updates the information included on pages F-13 to F-17 in the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-3
(File No. 333-177422), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 21, 2011 (the "Registration Statement"),
together with the financial information for the University Village Towers included on pages F-9 to F-12 in the Registration Statement,
constitutes the information required by Rule 3-14 and Article 11 of Regulation S-X with respect to a portion of the Company's
acquisition activity since January 1, 2011. No individual property purchased was an individually significant acquisition as defined
under Rule 3-14 of Regulation S-X.
(a)
Financial Statements of Businesses Acquired
.
The
audited statements of certain revenues and certain expenses of GrandMarc at Westberry Place (the "Grandmarc") for the
year ended December 31, 2010
and its unaudited financial statements
as of and for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 are filed herewith as Exhibit 99.1, and incorporated in this Item 9.01(a)
by reference.
(b)
Pro Forma Financial Information
.
The unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated
balance sheet of Education Realty Trust, Inc. as of June 30, 2012 and the pro forma condensed consolidated statement of operations
for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and the six months ended June 30, 2012 giving effect to the acquisitions of
the GrandMarc and the University Village Towers properties, as well as certain probable dispositions and the Company's August
2012 equity offering, is filed herewith as Exhibit 99.2 and incorporated in this Item 9.01(b) by reference.
(d)
Exhibits
. The following exhibits
are being filed with this Current Report on Form 8-K.
Exhibit No.
Description
23.1
Consent of Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP
99.1
Statements of Revenues and Certain Expenses for the Year Ended December 31, 2010 and the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011 (unaudited)
99.2
Unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated financial statements of Education Realty Trust, Inc. as of June 30, 2012 and for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and for the six months ended June 30, 2012
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
EDUCATION REALTY TRUST, INC.
Date:
September 7, 2012
By:
/s/ Randall H. Brown
Randall H. Brown
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer,
Treasurer and Secretary
INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit No.
Description
23.1
Consent of Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP
99.1
Statements of Revenues and Certain Expenses for the Year Ended December 31, 2010 and the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011 (unaudited)
99.2
Unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated financial statements of Education Realty Trust, Inc. as of June 30, 2012 and for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and for the six months ended June 30, 2012