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I've usually found that its best to start with planets, open clusters and globulars. Few people seem to get much of a buzz out of faint galaxies or planetary nebs even though I love looking at them. So I'd focus on Jupiter, 47 Tuc, m42, other bright globulars, eg m2. If people are really keen then I'd go to NGC 253, NGC 1365, Grus trio, helix neb. At school nights that I've done, there tend to be two groups.
The larger will be interested only in the more dramatic and obvious. They will have finished earlier in the evening and there remains a small group of the more interested who will be happy to learn about fainter stuff. I'm always shocked by how many people love looking at the moon and get nothing out of the faint smudges that interest me. I think this says more about me than them. BDAS does heaps of school nights and everyone seems to find that the bright and defined wins the day (ie Saturn Jupiter, star clusters).
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