Thank you all for the suggestions.
This is for students in Guatemala. I don't know that it is all one school, as there are kids and extended family of various ages.
I am now leaning toward installing Fedora on these machines. I just switched to Spanish; Castilian, Guatemala to test here in my office and it looks easy.
So, Fedora 27, LibreOffice, VLC, and GIMP and we should be good.
I have suggested to my local contact to drop off a laptop and I will install everything and show it to her.
Any other words of wisdom?